Ecopetrol embarrassed by new oil spill in central Colombia
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol continues to be plagued by oil spills possibly...
Tag: Magdalena river
Colombia to scrap Odebrecht’s Magdalena River dredging contract
Colombia’s government has begun termination of an $861 million contract to restore...
Japanese bank pulls financing from Odebrecht’s Colombia river project
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank has pulled $250 million in financing from Colombia’s...
Goldman interested in financing Colombia’s Magdalena project: Govt
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has expressed interest in financing a project to make...
Colombia allocates $1.3B to Magdalena river navigability
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday that the government will allocate $1.3 billion...
New species of fish found in Colombia’s heavily polluted Magdalena River
Researchers have found a new species of fish in Colombia’s most important and possibly most...
International environmental conference to discuss problems with major Colombian canal
The Dique canal, which connects the Caribbean port city of Cartagena to the center of Colombia,...
Colombia earmarks $1.15B to dredge country’s principal river
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday signed a $1.2 billion budget for the improving...
Oil spill contaminates Magdalena river in southern Colombia
An oil truck overturned and spilled 11,200 gallons of diesel in the southern Colombian Huila department Monday. The truck was traveling between the cities Neiva and Florencia when its breaks failed, Colombia’s Highway...
Boy drowns in river with bricks tied to feet
An 8-year-old child drowned Saturday in the Magdalena River in northwest Colombia, during a ”challenge” game with friends, reported Radio Caracol. The game — which took place in the municipality of Puerto...
Netherlands to help Colombia study flood patterns
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday the signing of an agreement between Colombian and Dutch authorities to dredge the river basins of two of Colombia’s primary rivers, the Magdalena and the Cauca....
9 Colombian departments at high risk of landslides
Nine of Colombia’s departments are in a state of high alert for risk of landslides, according to Ministry of the Interior Risk Management Director Carlos Ivan Marquez. W Radio reported Monday that weather conditions...
