Abelardo and USO Talk About Ecopetrol and Reactivation of Fracking

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President Abelardo de la Espriella and the Union Sindical Obrera (USO), Ecopetrol’s largest workers’ union, held a meeting in which they discussed the company and the reactivation of oil exploitation and exploration, including fracking, a common point between the new government and the union. It is also the president’s first meeting with a union, an ideologically opposed sector to its political flags, which was an active ally of Gustavo Petro’s …

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A trade union turn in Colombia can clear the future of Spanish energy in hydrocarbons. The Union Labor Union (USO), union of Ecopetrol, has backed the energy plan of President Abelardo De La Espriella, including fracking. The news, advanced by El Tiempo, has an immediate reading for Spain: Colombia is not an ordinary energy market. It is a country with natural gas reserves, a regulatory framework that needs investment and a tradition of Spanish …