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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Stop or the Rainforest Gets It

In an amusing sign of things to come, perhaps, Ecuador is threatening to allow oil drilling in an incredibly valuable rainforest environment.... unless it gets a ransom of 350 million dollars. A year.

Seriously. They're holding a forest for ransom.

Source: USA Today

Posted by John J. Sears at 10:56 AM
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