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Repeat Oil Spills Turning Peruvian Amazon into 'Sacrifice Zone' for Big Oil
2016-06-29 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: Less than six months after two horrific oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon devastated Indigenous communities and the local ecosystem, yet another spill in the region has been reported. "Somehow virtually none of the profits generated by the oil industry over decades is available to ensure that Amazonian communities don't have to watch their primary sources of livelihoods--the river, the forest--become irrevocably polluted by spills." --Andrew Miller, Amazon WatchOn Friday afternoon, a leak was...
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