First Class Yacht

July 29 - August 2

All inclusive in the cruise

Special rate: 1210 usd (just cruise)

Tkt to Galapagos: 406 usd

Luxury class

July 7 - 10 / 2008

All inclusive, even the TKT to Galapagos

Really special rate

4 days / 3 nights

1200 usd - An incredibly opportunity

By The Ecuador Reporter

The oil pipelines are inescapable companians as one drives through Ecuador's northwest jungle towns. Many of the roads were constructed by Texaco in the 70s and 80s as the oil industry developed. Each pipe represents a different well. In the USA, law requieres this waste water to be pumped back into the ground once the oil has been extracted.

When companies drill for oil in Ecuador, they also pump up natural gas. Natural gas in this raw state has essentially no uses, except for the refinement of cocaine. Any natural gas Ecuador uses for energy does not come from their own supply, but is imported from countries that have large enough reserves to make the processing economically feasible, such as Bolivia.

Shortly after Texaco left Ecuador in 1990 it was recomended by an independent enviromental audit to invest 13.2 million USD in remediaton efforts. These pits collect waste water, drilling muds (a carconegetic cocktail of chemical lubricants that ease the drilling process) and crude oil (when oil is hit it sprays into the enviroment for hours or days as tests are run to determine the wealth of the well).