Latin American Nations Join Those Rejecting Climate Ideology
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IPCC Petrobras Ecopetrol ExxonMobil Occidental Petroleum CrownRock
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Colombia spent four years under leftist leadership apologizing for its energy resources.
Colombia spent four years under leftist leadership apologizing for its energy resources.
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Energy security sits at the center of national sovereignty.
The penance ended when newly elected President Abelardo de la Espriella told his countrymen that energy security sits at the center of national sovereignty
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He pledged to revive oil and gas exploration, rebuild state-owned petroleum company Ecopetrol, and authorize hydraulic fracturing under strict technical and environmental standards.
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Colombia will pursue an energy transition, but not from a position of dependence.
De la Espriella’s inauguration address in Cali laid out a clear strategy: Colombia will pursue an energy transition, but not from a position of dependence.
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Any transition must be “built from strength, not from weakness”.
Any transition, he said, must be “built from strength, not from weakness”.
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That rules out policies embracing solar and wind energy at the expense of affordability, reliability, and flexibility.
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The new president will face a poor economy inherited from former President Gustavo Petro.
But the new president will face a poor economy inherited from former President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla leader.
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Petro banned new exploration contracts.
Elected on a promise to lead the world out of hydrocarbons, Petro banned new exploration contracts.
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Survival is only possible if we separate ourselves from oil, coal, and natural gas.
At the COP30 climate summit in Belém, he informed the planet that survival is “only possible if we separate ourselves from oil, coal, and natural gas.”
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Colombia’s energy industry was decimated.
The fruit of that sermon was the decimation of Colombia’s energy industry.
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Petro killed a Permian Basin joint venture with Occidental Petroleum and blocked a $3.6 billion purchase of a 30 percent stake in CrownRock.
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Senior directors of Ecopetrol resigned in protest.
Senior directors of Ecopetrol resigned in protest.
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Industry figures show foreign direct investment in Colombian mining and oil dropped 34 percent to $6.9 billion between 2023 and 2025.
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Average crude output reduced four percent and crude reserves shrank by 54 million barrels.
Average crude output reduced four percent and crude reserves shrank by 54 million barrels.
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Natural gas imports climbed from three percent of domestic consumption in 2023 to 31 percent by 2025.
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Colombia now imports nearly a third of its gas after supplying its own gas for 45 years.
A nation that supplied its own gas for 45 years now imports nearly a third of it.
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Bogotá transitioned away from Colombian fossil fuels and toward somebody else’s tankers.
Bogotá then transitioned away from Colombian ‘fossil fuels’ and toward somebody else’s tankers.
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De la Espriella inherits an electric grid dependent on hydropower during a drought.
De la Espriella also inherits an electric grid dependent on hydropower during a drought.
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Dependence on imported energy was branded as virtue and sold to voters as moral progress in controlling the climate – a physical impossibility, and claims of a climate crisis do not withstand scientific scrutiny.
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Satellite records show a measurably greener planet, and global harvests keep breaking records rather than collapsing.
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The IPCC are more careful than its hyperbolic publicists.
Even the IPCC are more careful than its hyperbolic publicists.
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Chapter 11 of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report declines to detect or attribute human-caused trends across many categories of severe weather.
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Deaths from natural disasters have fallen by more than 90 percent over the past century as global population quadrupled.
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In Argentina, President Javier Milei has publicly derided the Paris Agreement as a fraud and weighed pulling his country out entirely.
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Milei’s government backs a $30 billion expansion in oil and natural gas development in Vaca Muerta.
His government backs a $30 billion expansion in oil and natural gas development in Vaca Muerta.
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Floating liquefaction units are projected to produce annually 12 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas for export.
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A 437-kilometer pipeline to Punta Colorada will deliver its first crude exports this December, reaching 390,000 barrels a day by mid-2027.
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Petrobras is committing $2.5 billion and 15 wells to the Equatorial Margin by 2030.
Brazil is similar, with Petrobras committing $2.5 billion and 15 wells to the Equatorial Margin by 2030.
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The frontier is believed to hold more than 30 billion barrels of crude.
The frontier is believed to hold more than 30 billion barrels of crude.
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In Guyana, ExxonMobil produces more than 900,000 barrels a day and expects a final investment decision on the $12.5 billion Longtail project by next year.
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Meanwhile, still importing 75 percent of its gas through American pipelines, Mexico has authorized further study of low-impact hydrofracturing in the Sabinas-Burro-Picachos and Burgos basins.
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These Latin American governments have stopped confusing an “environmental” fad with physics.
These Latin American governments have stopped confusing an “environmental” fad with physics.
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The region possesses abundant energy resources capable of supporting economic growth for decades while continuing to improve environmental performance through better technology and stronger operational standards.
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For two decades, a global coalition of nonprofits, international bodies, and financial institutions stigmatized fossil fuel projects regardless of their environmental safeguards or economic necessity.
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That ‘green’ shackle is finally breaking as nations choose prosperity and sovereign security over hollow promises of climate collectivists.
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