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Sign the petition to demand that the private fossil fuel company OCP Ecuador take full responsibility for providing a thorough cleanup of this oil spill.

Residents of Puerto Maderos make no effort to hide their anger at the latest crude spill to hit the Ecuadoran Amazon. 

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An oil spill in Ecuador in late January has been spreading over the past few days throughout the Yasuní area reaching unforeseen proportions, it was reported Wednesday.

Amazon residents in Ecuador are angry over the latest oil spill that has already reached the Coca River.

Some 6,300 barrels of oil leaked into a natural reserve in Ecuador in a protected area of the Amazon.

A major oil spill has left Indigenous communities in Ecuador with no water supply, contaminating rivers and rainforests and leaving people and endangered species at great risk. Demand that this never happen again and that the company take responsibility.

According to information released Wednesday by the business that controls the pipeline, an oil spill caused by a damaged pipeline in Ecuador's Amazon area spilled about 6,300 barrels into an environmental reserve.

Oil spill in Ecuador pollutes nature reserve in Amazon - Business - QUITO: An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, according to the countr...

An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country's environmental ministry said Monday.