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Uganda should not license oil drilling near Congo's Virunga: activists

2016-03-06 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Uganda should not license an oil exploration block close to neighbouring Congo's Virunga National Park because drilling would harm the park's ecosystem, 60 local and international environmental groups said on Thursday. The east African country of Uganda discovered crude reserves in its Albertine rift basin near its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2006. In its latest licensing round, the first to be conducted competitively, six blocks covering about 3,000 square kilometres...

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