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Grupo Isolux Corsan SA’s task of laying power lines across the Amazon jungle ran into an unexpected obstacle last year when Brazil took more than six months to grant visas for 200 specialized Chinese workers.
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A claim by a group of Ecuadorean villagers seeking to seize Chevron Corp.’s Canadian assets was stayed by a judge in Ontario at Chevron’s request.
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Anglo American Plc, the metals producer with mines from Chile to Zimbabwe, said three bodies were found after the collapse of a port used for loading iron- ore shipments on Brazil’s Amazon River.
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How does the Chinese Communist Party manage to calm a public convinced that -- on matters of public health, at least -- officials are probably lying to them?
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Nestle SA will begin sailing a supermarket barge down two Amazon river tributaries tomorrow as it competes with Unilever to reach emerging-market customers cut off from branded goods.
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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the nation will halt a Yasuni National Park oil development project in the Amazon river region, Kyodo News reported.
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Brazil could save 2 billion reais ($1 billion) a year in grain transport costs by setting up a barge connection between northern Mato Grosso state and ports on the Amazon River, according to Soybean & Corn Advisor Inc.
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Chevron Corp. lost its challenge to an $18 billion judgment before an Ecuador appeals court in a lawsuit alleging the company is responsible for chemicals spilled in the Amazon River basin more than 20 years ago.
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A judge will decide in February whether a trial can proceed in Ontario over a claim by Ecuadorean villagers trying to seize $12 billion of Chevron Corp.’s Canadian assets.
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A judge hearing Chevron Corp.’s first test of whether Amazon rainforest-dwellers will collect $19 billion in environmental damages from the world’s fourth- largest oil company said the case should be tried in the U.S.
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