Do you agree that the Ecuadorian government is keeping the ITT crude, known as block 43, underground indefinitely? It is not surprising that he came to the consultation because it is promoted by the collective YASunidos, which uses emotional images in large advertisements, financially and ideologically supported by extreme international environmental non-governmental organizations. It is supported by the 2008 Constitution, the only one in the world that gives rights to nature; So some group can collect signatures to declare any zone free from oil or mineral extraction.
Former President Correa (2007) brought to the world a proposal to invest money in a foundation in exchange for holding oil underground in Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputina (ITT), it was not accepted and in 2013 he decreed its abolition; Since that year, the YASunidos collected signatures to continue with the goal of keeping the oil underground, the National Electoral Council (CNE) rejected them and they filed in 2014; In 2019, the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control ruled that CNE violated the rights of the signatories of the YASunidos group; In 2022, the Constitutional Court ruled that due process was violated and that the CNE continues the consultation process, which will take place on August 20, 2023. A sign of the weakness of the state.
YASunidos reveals on its website that these are young people, students, peasants, artists, workers, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, boys, girls and activists; impartial; vegans, cyclists, Buddhists, environmentalists, animalists, feminists, human rights defenders; rejection of extractivism of natural resources; pacifists; he is not naive about climate change and ethnocide; anti-patriarchy; defenders of democracy and Yasunà as the territory of Tagaeri and Taromenan. A human miracle!
The North Pole is melting, oil and gas are being extracted… the anti-extractivists “don’t stop there”.
Besides, they say: “We have seen that it is necessary to defend life above money”, with what money do they feed, clothe, educate, mobilize and promote great propaganda? Citizens should work and produce based on the rational use of natural resources. The world moves with oil, we are marginal producers compared to the big countries that extract and sell oil and its derivatives, with minimal risk of contamination.
Non-governmental organizations from European countries, which do not have oil and are big consumers, resort to extreme environmental actions to place capital with high interest rates in exchange for blue or green bonds, have taken weakened Ecuador as a guinea pig. What does the small YasunÃ-ITT of our Amazon represent compared to the large fields of the Arctic Circle? The North Pole is melting, Russia, Norway, Iceland, USA (Alaska), Canada and Denmark (Greenland) extract oil and natural gas.
I will vote against to prevent extremist NGOs from increasing our foreign debt; our oil quota is taken by another producer; it does not affect the income from the sale of oil, which is necessary for survival. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
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