Leftist Andrés Arauz and right-wing Guillermo Lasso have both vowed to continue promoting the oil and mining sectors, but their approach would be quite different.

Chile's copper giant has requested international arbitration with Ecuador and its state-miner over the Llurimagua project.

The Slave Lake biomass-gas-to-liquids proposed project is expected to produce 6.5 million liters per year of low-carbon intensity, clean-burning synthetic diesel fuel.

The binding agreement ends a standoff between the companies over the copper-gold mine expansion.