Indigenous Leader visits Oil Contamination in Peru's Amazon
By: amazonwatch
Posted: Nov 21 07
Witnessed: 419 times
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30 years of oil production in Block 1AB in the northern Amazon has left indigenous peoples, who have lived in the area since time immemorial, suffering malnutrition, sickness and social disruption. Since 1971, Los-Angles-based Occidental Petroleum, using practices outlawed in the U.S., pumped an average of 800,000 gallons a day of salty formation water and other toxic wastewaters into local rivers with appalling consequences for local communities.
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