[Stoves] LPG subsidy to be removed in Ecuador

[Andrew C. Parker]

Ed,

Do you know what crops predominate in her project area?  The TLUD stoves  
like a consistent fuel.  Knowing what fuel is available will help in  
configuring/tuning a stove for it.

I assume Nicola is in Sucumbios in the Lago Agrio area.

Are her clients indigenous or colonists?  Fixed or shifting agriculture?

If the primary goal is to provide charcoal for water purification, there  
are several designs for portable kilns that could be used to process slash.

I am afraid that with the recently announced exploitation of Yasuni, there  
will be many more incidents like Texaco or the oil pipeline rupture  
earlier this year.

Only a few hundred in the protests today.  Not much hope of getting  
widespread public sympathy when oil revenue is paying the bono.


Andrew Parker


P.S.  Is there a problem with pollution from flares mixing with the  
rainwater?



On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:29:39 -0600, Edward Revill <edrevill at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hello, my name is Ed, I noticed this thread and I was wondering whether  
> anybody is in a position to help or to advise a friend of mine.
>
> My friend Nicola has been working with Ecuadorian peasants to try to  
> improve their lives following serious water and ground oil pollution  
> incidents caused by Texaco over 20 years ago.