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At the behest of Colombia’s National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) scientists from the United States government spent two weeks in Colombia observing and analyzing the environmental impacts of the Hidroituango contingency, the troubled hydroelectric dam construction...

Medellín based utility company EPM (Epresas Públicas de Medellín) announced that over the weekend it announced an evacuation of 105 workers on the Ituango Hydroelectric Dam, hours north of Medellín. The evacuation was due to water leakage around the inlet from the reservoir to...

The environmental harm is ongoing, and Ecopetrol’s response to the catastrophe has drawn widespread criticism.

Both prospects are within the company's CPO-9 block and part of a contract between Ecopetrol and Repsol subsidiary Talisman.