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Block 1ab in Northern Peru

What: Toxic Oil Contamination

Where: Rio Corrientes, Peruvian Amazon

Thirty years of oil production in Block 1AB in the northern Peruvian Amazon has poisoned local indigenous communities and their ancestral lands.[more >>]

 
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Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza, two leaders in the 30,000 plaintiffs in the landmark environmental lawsuit against Chevron (formerly Texaco) in Ecuador have won the Goldman Award, the Nobel of the Environment.
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