It Could Cost $1 Billion To Clean Up the Oil in Peru’s Northern Amazon
Over four decades of exploration and extraction have caused an environmental and health crisis in Indigenous communities
August 3, 2017The Guardian
Who is going to clean up Peru's northern Amazon after decades of companies spilling oil and dumping billions of barrels of toxic production waters? Certainly not US company Occidental which ran the biggest concession, Lot 1-AB, until 2000, nor, it would seem, Petroperu, which ran the other major concession, Lot 8, until 1996 and operates the rusty, leaking North Peruvian Pipeline to this day.