El Diario reports: Jubileo warns conflicts due to oil exploration Specialist argues that for exploration and exploitation it is necessary that the Government conducts a prior consultation to the communities and indigenous peoples, before being declared as [oil, gas] reserves in favor of YPFB. The search for new hydrocarbon resources by Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos…
Tag: hydrocarbons
Does current Bolivia gov really think about the future and OUR environment? No!!
Pagina Siete’s editorial on a soon to be irreversible damage to our National Parks! Exploration in protected areas It is more than an intention. At the opening of the Oil and Gas Congress III, Vice President García Linera said clearly that by “respecting mother earth” the Government will not stop to the protected areas declaration,…
And Bolivia continues to lose its natural markets…
This time, Brazil shows clearly that we are not reliable, that Bolivia is not to be trusted! They prefer to pay more for their energy rather than trusting current Bolivian government that does not honor, nor respects international laws, let alone foreign investment. Lidia Mamani reports for Pagina Siete: The neighboring country will process up…
Bolivia: Subventions 101, irresponsible and unsustainable demagogue
An important Editorial analysis from El Diario: Subvention, a great dilemma The Government, since the damn “gasolinazo” [Bolivian slang of a proposed high increase in the prices of gasoline, diesel and liquid gas] of December 2010, has left in abeyance concerns by that measure, since the determination to abolish subsidies was overturned, it opened new…
Bolivia: Viability of Chapare fertilizer plants questioned
A. D. Hans Soria reports for Los Tiempos: They doubt of viability of fertilizer plants The location and the lack of a marketing plan could subtract viability to the plants of fertilizers (urea and ammonia) that will be built in Carrasco, said the analysts Bernardo Prado and Alvaro Rios, who question that the Government has…
And I was wondering about the reason of Argentina’s presidential visit…
Last week I read of the visit of Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez to Bolivia. The reason was a very obvious one and I recalled that last century Argentina did not pay for our gas, in fact they defaulted and unilaterally decided not to pay what they consumed (70s early 80s)… so, what are the implications…
