Oil spill affects environmental reserve, river in Ecuador's Amazon
River supplies Indigenous villages living in surrounding areas
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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 ...
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