Indigenous Peruvians seize oil station, demand cleanup

[Judi Lynn]

18 Mar 2023, 10:25

LIMA, March 18, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Indigenous Peruvians have occupied an oil
pumping station deep in the Amazon and prevented 41 workers from leaving the
installation, state-owned oil firm Petroperu said on Friday.

The Indigenous activists are demanding that Petroperu clean up areas damaged
by an oil spill decades ago.

"Petroperu has been developing all possible actions to achieve the release of
the 41 people who remain deprived of their rights at the Morona Station of
the Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline," the company said in a statement. It said
activists from the Fernando Rosas community had arrived at the site on
Wednesday.

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The Morona Station sits in a jungle area of Loreto department, about 620
miles (1,000 kilometers) northeast of capital Lima.

The Indigenous activists said in a letter sent to authorities, which AFP saw,
that an oil spill around the pumping station 25 years ago caused damage that
was never reversed. They said they would block pumping until mitigation work
begins.

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