Indigenous Peoples and Oil

- Report of a seminar in Finland -

Publication information 

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CONTENTS 

Ulla Lehtinen: "Indigenous peoples and oil" events in Finland 1999

Olli Tammilehto: A civilised world or a bloodsucker of the earth?

Background information on oil

Russia's oil production 

Florian Stammler: Where does our oil come from?

Yeremei Aipin: Russia's oil industry and the development of rights of indigenous people 

Agrafena Sopochina: "We Live on what the earth carries on itself" 

Yuri Vella: Kogalym-Lor - the lake where a man died 

Bruce Forbes: Industrial development in the Yamal-Nenets Area 

Lidia Okotetto: I no longer understand the tundra that has loved me 

Grigorii Anagurichi: A clash of civilisations at the ends of the world 

Charity Nenebari Ebeh: The Ogoni experience 

Magda Lanuza: Oil production in Central America 

Ecuador and oil

Arturo Yumbai Iligama: The war against the poor

Colombia, the U'wa and oil

Roberto Afanador Cobaria: Oil is blood of the earth

Workshop 1: The strategies of oil industry and the responses of indigenous peoples' movements 

Workshop 2: Networking of indigenous peoples threatened by oil and gas exploration 

Workshop 3: Northern Dimension 

Communique of the participants in the seminar "Indigenous Peoples and Oil"

Internet links

People who participated in the editing of this publication are: Pirjo Brusin-Niemi, Santeri Junttila, Asko Lehmuskallio, Ulla Lehtinen, Henri Myrtttinen, Jouni Nissinen, Mirja Noland, Mikko Peltola, Johanna Sarjas and Olli Tammilehto. The publication will be in Finnish, Russian, Spanish and English, which are the four languages that were used in the events. The texts have been translated into different languages by Linus Atarah, Andres Heinäpuu, Asko Lehumskallio, Ulla Lehtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Henri Myrttinen, Jouni Nissinen, Mirja Noland, Esa Salminen, Marja Savolainen, Olli Tammilehto and Oksana Zorina.

Drawing: Mira Heija

Layout: Mikko Koskinen

Orders of printed copies of this publication: Friends of the Earth, Tampere, PL 530, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland, tel. +358-3-212 0097, fax: -212- 7257, email:my-kirjamyynti@gaia.pp.sci.fi

Publisher: The Fourth World - First Peoples Finland, Uudenmaank. 1, FIN-20500 Turku, Finland, email: first.people@sci.fi

Turku 2000

The series of events "Indigenous Peoples and Oil" that has resulted in this publication was organised by the following Finnish and Estonian NGOs: Committee of 100, the Committee on Finno-Ugric Issues of the Student Union of the Helsinki University, the Finland-Russia Friendship Society, the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, the Finnish Branch of Service Civil International, Finnish Peace Committee, the Fourth World - First Peoples Finland, the Friends of the Earth Finland, Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples - SURI (Estonia), the M.A. Castrén Society, PAND - Artists for Peace, the Service Centre for Development Cooperation, the Shell Boycott Campaign, Tinku Finland, Turku International Meeting Point, the Varsinais-Suomi Branch of Finnish Nature League and Green Cultural Association - Visio. In the organizing committee there were also several independent activists and researchers.