Impacto ambiental y socio-político que producirá la explotación petrolera en la parroquia Macuma

Abstract

This research aims to found information and then analyze the perspectives that the Community authorities against oil exploitation, which operate in the parish Macuma within Block 75. We want know what is the experience, level of knowledge regarding the oil issue for the communities, while verifying advantage and disadvantages that brings oil exploration certainly raise strategy for pre-investment projects for the benefit of the communities, for which an analysis is made the legal framework in which this is immersed procurement. In the first part, an overview of all that is Macuma parish is done, the communities that are settled within Block 75, also contains the perceptions authority’s community against oil exploitation, their advantages and disadvantages that cause said hydrocarbon exploitation. In the second part, we want to know the environmental and socio- political impacts are analyzed, based on legal requirements and customary law, with emphasis from a cultural point of view, the current situation and the possible impacts that degrade nature affecting biodiversity and heritage cultural development of peoples. The third part concerns the legal instruments in the context of natural resources, especially oil, under the Hydrocarbons Law and the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, as the state raises new oil policies and preserving nature political participation of indigenous communities in the exploitation of the hydrocarbon resources within their ancestral. Also concludes with some considerations to be taken into account and that call for reflection when you proposed and implemented territories contracts whose benefit is not best for the country.