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Around 500 Achuar indigenous protesters have occupied Peru’s biggest oil field in the Amazon rainforest near Ecuador to demand the clean-up of decades of contamination from spilled crude oil. The oilfield operator, Argentine Pluspetrol, said output had fallen by 70% since the protesters occupied its facilities on Monday – a production drop of around 11,000 barrels per day. ... Almost 80% of our population are sick due to the presence of lead and cadmium in our food and water form the oil contamination, said [Carlos] Sandi, president of FECONACO, the federation of native communities in the Corrientes River.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:28:36 +0000

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