|Forseeable impacts of oil industry activity in Yasuní| The
opening of the oil frontier, if the ITT project is developed,
would entail the creation of a new oil industry zone, where the
same impacts would be seen as those that have been well
documented in already operational zones.Those impacts can be
summarized as follows: In addition to these impacts, it is also
necessary to consider the other impacts triggered by oil
industry activity, such as the link between the building of
roads and illegal logging -- as is the case in the logging
activity in Yasuní National Park and even in the so-called
“untouchable” zone – as well as colonization, tourism,
bioprospecting and other threats. Impacts of drilling wells The
oil industry recognizes that for every vertical well that is
drilled, 500 cubic metres of solid waste and between 2,500 and
3,000 cubic metres of liquid waste are produced, while
directional drilling leads to 20% to 30% more solid and liquid
waste per well. If the plans to drill 130 wells in the ITT fi