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Subject: Burma OUT!! Heroin use, overdoses surging in Colombia

Overdoses from heroin are inceasing at a fast rate 
in the land of the cocaine mountain.. Columbia..

REUTERS reported:
BOGOTA - (14.5.99) Colombia has passed new measures aimed at eviving
> its flagging oil industry by eliminating a series of environmental>
restrictions that had been causing lengthy delays in exploration
activity and test drilling.
Industry sources said Wednesday they welcomed the move, contained
in a presidential degree signed last week but not widely publicized at
the time, adding it could help spur fresh foreign investment in
Colombian oil.
The decree means private sector oil companies no longer have to
apply for environmental licenses to carry out seismic surveying and
only need a single license to sink any number of test drills in an
exploratory block, rather than a license for each well.

Under the terms of the law, which has already come into effect,
companies will still have to take care not to damage the environment
around their operations. But they will be subject to regular audits
rather than forced to comply with a whole series of regulations before
starting up operations.
Multinationals operating in Colombia have regularly blamed complex
environmental licensing laws, under which licenses can take more than
a year to process, for hampering exploration work.
According to official figures less than 20 percent of Colombia's
potential oil-bearing regions have been explored.
The country's oil output is currently stagnant at about 850,000
barrels per day (bpd) and could dwindle to less than 200,000 bpd by
2010 if major new finds are not made.
"The decree on environmental licenses is a useful step. It is part
of a series of things. The question of royalty payments is also
important especially in the case of small and medium-sized fields,"
said one multinational oil industry source, who declined to be named.
Last week, Congress approved the government's economic and social
Development Plan that introduces more flexible royalty payments on oil
production. The law must still be ratified by the Constitutional Court
and signed by President Andres Pastrana.
Until now, the government had levied 20 percent royalties on oil
fields regardless of output levels. Under the new rules, smaller

fields will pay less royalties and the percentage will rise depending
on production levels.
Multinationals had long complained the state take was too high and
that profit margins in Colombia were too low compared to other
countries.
     (C) Reuters Limited 1999.

Follow the appreciations of the Shan Democratic Union, 
film maker John Pilger,  HH the  Dalai Lama, The Free Burma 
Coalition, Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, parliamentarians, 
Socialist Workers' Party, JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix 
bassist Noel Redding, Abdullah Ibrahim, musicians,  All 
Burma Students Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students 
Democratic Front, and numerous others.  

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sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney 2000 Olympic 
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