These groups have employed a strategy of attempting to overwhelm the USFW with proposals to list hundreds of plant and animal species that exist in abundance over large geographic areas that are home to oil and gas exploration, wind farm development, major solar installations, highway projects and other significant human development projects.

FORBES: The Radical Abuse of the ESA Threatens the US Economy

According to this agreement both countries will cooperate in the areas of energy exploitation and exploration and in joint ventures involving petrochemical and hydroelectric development as well as hydrocarbons, mining, agriculture, infrastructure, science and technology.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Latin American leaders at the UN