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:"According to the LA Times, a security firm hired by Occidental to monitor guerrilla movements (another U.S. company known as AirScan) provided coordinates to Colombian military pilots when they dropped cluster bombs on Santo Domingo, a village near one of the company's pipelines. Seventeen civilians, including seven children, died in the attack"<ref>Expanded Reporting, Steelworkers Join Los Angeles Activists in Demanding Occidental Petroleum Stop its Complicity of Human Rights Abuses in Colombia, Politics & Government Week, 4-August-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</ref>.
  
 
==Iraq==
 
==Iraq==

Revision as of 05:36, 9 December 2009

AirScan is an airborne security and surveilence company based in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 by two retired United States military officers[1].

Colombia

According to Eric Watkins of the Oil & Gas Journal:

"In 2003, Alberto Galvis sought punitive damages from Occidental Petroleum for the deaths of his mother, a sister, and a cousin, who were among 18 civilians killed when a Colombian military helicopter dropped a bomb on a village near the Cano Limon Pipeline in an antiguerrilla operation.
Occidental was named in the lawsuit because pilots of AirScan (a security firm Occidental used to protect its oil interests) mapped targets for the Colombian military.
Occidental Petroleum denied any responsibility either for the bombing or for the deaths of the civilians"[2]

According to a report in Politics and Government Week:

"According to the LA Times, a security firm hired by Occidental to monitor guerrilla movements (another U.S. company known as AirScan) provided coordinates to Colombian military pilots when they dropped cluster bombs on Santo Domingo, a village near one of the company's pipelines. Seventeen civilians, including seven children, died in the attack"[3].

Iraq

In September 2008 Airscan were awarded a $165 million contract by the US Army for surveillance support services in Iraq[4].

Affiliations

Occidental Pertroleum | Erinys International


Notes

  1. About Airscan, About Us, AirScan.com, Accessed 08-December-2009
  2. Eric Watkins, The extravagant allegation club, Oil & Gas Journal, 10-August-2009, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK
  3. Expanded Reporting, Steelworkers Join Los Angeles Activists in Demanding Occidental Petroleum Stop its Complicity of Human Rights Abuses in Colombia, Politics & Government Week, 4-August-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK
  4. US Fed News, U.S. Army Awards $165 Million Contract to AirScan for Surveillance Support, US Fed News, 13-September-2008, Accessed 08-Decmber-2009 via Nexis UK