Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Demand Justice One Year After Ecuador Oil Spill
Representatives of 109 Indigenous communities marched to the prosecutor's office in the Amazonian province of Orellana
April 7, 2021
Coca, Ecuador – This morning, hundreds of Indigenous Kichwa people from the Ecuadorian Amazon marched through the city of Coca to mark one year since the country’s largest oil spill in recent history. On April 7, 2020, 672,000 gallons of crude oil and fuel spilled from the country’s two major pipelines, the OCP and SOTE operated by the OCP Consortium and Petroecuador respectively, contaminating the Coca and Napo rivers, and their source of water and food. There has not been full remediation nor redress for local communities.