I just did a search for Equateur and petroleum and came up only with another of your own articles, including this paragraph:

“EXXON (ESSO) discovered oil in Equateur during the Mobutu reign, but—apparently—Mobutu’s insistence on domestic refining sidelined the project; the petroleum reserves in Equateur have recently been “discovered” and these reserves—in territory controlled by Bemba and the MLC—were clearly at stake in the wars of 1996-2004. On a 1997 petroleum industry map the huge Equateur Province concession (labeled “Trillion”) stretches more than 120,000 square kilometers into the rainforest of the Congo River basin.”

Thanks much for the map. It’s recently come out that there are huge oil reserves in and around Haiti, which may finally explain the mystery of why the U.S.A. has been so determined to control Haiti that they’d all but drop a nuclear bomb to do so.

“Timber” and “Equateur Province” yields a number of references online.

This wasn’t a complaint. I said thanks for that detail. I often feel that we need a resource map of Congo to understand what’s going on there.

When you say you “found teh palm oil plantations on line” what does that mean?

CARE is partnered with WWF and USAID in a huge US GOV program called CARPE. (Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment??) and its follow on Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP).

You wont find mention of the oil reserves In Equateur anywhere, but do try and I’d be happy to be proven wrong (and see some public info). But you can see the concession in CUVETTE CENTRAL (Equateur) on this oil industry map which I posted for DARFUR purposes here:
http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/pdf-163DARFUR%20OIL%20MAPS.pdf

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Equateur Province is the site of major untapped petroleum reserves. Belgian, French, Portuguese, German and U.S. families and corporations control vast tracts of land being denuded by rapacious industrial logging. There are also Western-owned plantations with modern day plantation slavery involving tens of thousands of Congolese people subject to terrorism by state paramilitary services.

I found the palm oil plantations online, but no the untapped petroleum.

Also, is Care International actually a property owner in Congo, with legal title? Re “Similarly, the immense untapped petroleum reserves beneath the Congo River basin and its rainforests in Equateur province remain undisclosed by Western institutions – including World Wildlife Fund (WWF), USAID and Care International – involved in possessing and depopulating these rainforest lands for Western corporate interests that benefit through the Kabila regime.” I understand very well how the WWF gets away with this sort of thing, for the sake of biodiversity and yeah, sure. . . but how does Care International justify owning property? Given who they are, it makes sense that they would, but what’s the scam? Also, how’s USAID play it?

Now its not only savages in Congo, but animal worshippers. How stupid do they think we are? How stupid are people??

Compare the real story above with the white racist media system’s propaganda published yesterday.

Sapa-AFP: “DR.Congo troops take back town from tribal forces. “http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/article233478.ece

The United Nations is keeping a tight lid on all information regarding civilian casualties, but reports indicate a huge human toll yet again.