Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Mongabay: Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years
An oil spill flows down Chuuntsa Creek in Oil Block 1-AB. Photo courtesy of: Amazon Watch.
A new report has uncovered 90 oil spills by Pluspetrol in northern Peru’s Amazon rainforest over the past 3 years. Covering two oil blocs–1-AB and 8–the report, complied by the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO), recorded 18 major oil spills in just the last year.
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