Study seeks to understand impacts of oil spills during the period of oil operations in the reserve, with information of 565 water and soil samples for the period 1994-2015.
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Oil exploration threatens forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Document prepared by the Amazon Regional Articulación (ARA), points out that, in the region, unlike the rest of the country, poverty rates are not only higher, as they have also increased.
E-Book shows behavior of extractive industries in Peru
Book ‘Excesses unpunished’ brings reports with evidence and cases in the mining and oil sector in the country.
Tacana indigenous say that Bolivian oil company “will kill” 17,000 chestnut trees
Indigenous peoples engaged in collecting chestnut denounced Bolivian oil company YPFB will kill 17,000 chestnut trees, with the possible oil exploration in its territory.
Young people spilled oil in front of Pluspetrol to protest against pollution
A group arrived at the outside of the offices of Pluspetrol in Lima to demand remediation of contaminated areas in the Loreto Amazon.
Ollanta Humala about Lot 192: community claims are legitimate
The Peruvian president said that the claims of native communities in the basin of the Tigre, Pastaza and Corrientes rivers, which require prior consultation before the exploitation of Lot 192, are “legitimate”.
The Matsés, last shamans of the Amazon forest to resist a transnational
The Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales, from Soros Group, will open hundreds of seismic lines in over 700 square kilometers of virgin forest on this indigenous territory, in the border between Peru and Brazil.
Who is who in the conflict over the exploitation of Lot 192?
Loreto protest and the Congress of the Peruvian Republic debate. Some people want Petroperu operates the biggest oil production lot in the country, but others refuse.
Indigenous on Block 192: They don’t want new forty years of pollution
The Regional Government of Loreto, in Peru, called for a strike for next September 2 and 3, to protest the award of oil block 192 to the Canadian company Pacific Stratus Energy.
Oil exploration in the Ecuadorian Amazon threatens forests
Poverty rates in the region are higher in areas where there is exploitation of non-renewable resources.