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Ashley Bushen

Ashley Bushen. -- Transnationals everywhere are attempting to recast themselves as eco-friendly. But, as Stephanie Boyd discovers, sometimes it’s not the way companies behave but the nature of business itself which is at issue. --. GLOBAL GEOGRAPHY 12(3) MRS. ALIPHAT. --INTRODUCTION--.

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Ashley Bushen

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  1. Ashley Bushen -- Transnationals everywhere are attempting to recast themselves as eco-friendly. But, as Stephanie Boyd discovers, sometimes it’s not the way companies behave but the nature of business itself which is at issue. -- GLOBAL GEOGRAPHY 12(3) MRS. ALIPHAT

  2. --INTRODUCTION-- --They promised this time it would be different. ‘Health, safety and environment’ was their motto. --A ‘green’ Shell. A friendly Shell. --Lower Urubamba Valley.

  3. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT --Estimated 600 million barrels of liquid natural gas. --Working with foreign companies is their only chance to get money for social projects. --Peru’s central government has ignored native people in the Urubamba Valley for centuries – leaving them without schools, health centers or other services. --San-Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network. (RAN)

  4. ENVIRONMENT --Shell first came to the region in the 1980s. --Whooping cough and influenza decimated previously uncontested groups. --Shell returned in 1996. --Chronicled a series of abuses that first year – including garbage left behind in campsites, abandoned airstrips that were never reforested and dangerous levels of hydrocarbons, cadmium and mercury in local water samples.

  5. Machiguenga --Traditional Machiguenga House --Amazon Indigenous Peoples

  6. OBSERVATIONS & CONCLUSIONS --Operation of natural-gas pipelines have even greater potential for damage. --One leak in a pipeline and everything within ten kilometres disappears. --One pipeline explosion in 1989 in Russia, between the towns of Ufa and Asha, blew up two railroad trains and killed 575 people.

  7. WORKS CITED http://www.newint.org/ --THE END--

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