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2020-01-07 23:58:30| PortlandOnline
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Negotiations and protests ongoing in wake of oil spills in Peruvian Amazon
2016-09-05 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Negotiations on Aug. 31 between national government officials and leaders and residents of Nueva Alianza, an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon, ended an impasse over cleanup of about 4,000 barrels of oil that spilled from two pipeline breaks 10 days earlier. But the talks left many questions unanswered and local residents dissatisfied. While the meeting was under way in Nueva Alianza, at the confluence of the Urituyacu and Maraón rivers in Perus northeastern Loreto region, a protest...
Cattle Grazing Is Now Causing Massive Deforestation Hotspots In The Peruvian Amazon
2016-07-19 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Deforestation in the Amazon has been a growing problem over the past five decades, with ranchers leading the way in clearing rainforest for cattle and cultivation. But while Brazil, the largest country in South America, seems on track to reduce deforestation, other major Amazonian countries like Peru are increasingly struggling to protect their share of the world`s largest rainforest. In fact, a new wave of deforestation is underway in the Huanuco region of central Peru, which now has the highest...
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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...
ThyssenKrupp to support Peruvian Navys submarine modernisation work
2016-06-13 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Germany-based ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has received a service order worth 40m from Peruvian naval shipyard SIMA to support extensive modernisation work on the Peruvian Navy's four HDW 209/1200 (Type 209/1200) class submarines.
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