Peru: New Maple Energy Oil Spill In The Peruvian Amazon - Local Indigenous Peoples Left To ...

Peru: New Maple Energy Oil Spill In The Peruvian Amazon - Local Indigenous Peoples Left To Clean Up With Rags And Buckets   A pipeline rupture in Maple Energy's Oil Block 31-E, 75 miles north of the city of Pucallpa, spilled crude oil into the Mashiria River, the primary source of drinking water and key fishing ground for the neighboring indigenous Shipibo community of Nuevo Sucre, this past Sunday. The local operator for the Dublin incorporated transnational has employed 32 community members...

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