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QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - 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. Handout picture released by Ecuador's Ministry of Environment shows an oil spill that occurred

QUITO: 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.

Nearly five acres of Ecuador's Cayambe-Coca National Park have been polluted after an oil pipeline burst. The government has vowed legal consequences for the company involved in the disaster.

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.

Ecuador’s environment ministry says pipeline spill is ‘major’ event and requests company measure its full impact.

River supplies Indigenous villages living in surrounding areas

Neither the government nor OCP Ecuador have quantified the extent of the spill.

Quito, Jan 28 (EFE).- Indigenous leaders and environmentalists in the Ecuadorian Amazon said Saturday that oil released by the rupture of a pipeline is flowing into the Coca River. Pablo Fajardo, an attorney who sued oil giant Texaco (now a unit of Chevron) of behalf of communities damaged by drilling operations, told Efe that residents …

Ecuador’s oil output has almost fully recovered after pipeline maintenance to repair erosion in the Andean country’s Amazon region caused production to dwindle to less than 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), the energy ministry said. The erosion, a naturally occurring phenomenon along the Coca River, forced a halt to pumping in the SOTE pipeline and ...

Ecuador Private-sector Oil Pipeline to Restart Operations