A fleet of special forces soldiers are being sent into the southwest state of Putumayo to protect citizens after an increased amount of attacks on oil tankers allegedly by Colombia’s…
Twenty-three truck drivers were allegedly forced by Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, to spill more than 5,000 barrels of crude oil onto a road in southwest Colombia, causing a major ecological disaster, Colombia’s…
Authorities have determined that guerrillas attacked an oil pipeline in northeastern Colombia, provoking an environmental emergency in the region.
Colombia’s mining minister on Tuesday threatened to declare a state of emergency in the northeast of the country if a local indigenous tribe continues to refuse to end the blocking…
An oil slick off Cartagena on Colombia’s Carribbean coast was spotted on Wednesday, only a week after a similar case, according to local media reports.
An unidentified group spilled 200 barrels of gasoline across Santander wetlands while attempting to illegally tap an EcoPetrol pipeline on Friday morning, reported local media.
Colombia’s state-run petroleum company invested $630 million across a number of environmental projects in 2013, the most it has invested in the past eight years, according to a company statement…
An oil slick from a leaking pipeline has contaminated a major Amazonian river that runs between Ecuador and Colombia, reported Spanish press agency EFE on Monday.
Suspected rebels of the FARC severely an oil pipeline on at least eight different locations in the north of Colombia, allegedly in retaliation of the killing of a prominent rebel…