The members of the native community of Cuninico from the Loreto region, They report that since the early hours of today, Friday, September 16, a new oil spill has been reported in the ravine and that it has already entered the Marañón River.
According to Canal N, Galo Vásquez, president of the Federation of United Cocamas Peoples of Marañon, explained that a The oil leak in the pipeline occurred last July and there was no good containment work, so the torrential rains reported this morning would have caused the displacement of crude through the community of Cuninico and continue towards the main channel of the river. Cashew.
The aforementioned media outlet reported that a group of workers from a company hired by Petroperuthey arrived at marañon river provided with protective suits to carry out containment tasks, but it has not managed to contain the oil spill.
Vásquez denounced that this situation affects not only Cuninico but also other Loreto indigenous communities such as San Francisco, San Antonio, Maypuco, Zaramunillo, Esperanza and other towns. They call for immediate action Petroperu arguing that adequate remediation and containment work was not carried out after the previous report of oil spill.
A judicial resolution of 2017 orders the Ministry of Health (Minsa) to apply as a strategy the care of those affected by heavy metals after exposure to oil. However, to date Cuninico It only has a small health post.
mongabay Latam reported that on July 7, the native community of Nueva Alianza warned of a leak in the pipeline that runs through the community. added that so far this year, five cases of vandalism associated with the rupture of the Petroperú pipeline have been reported in the lower part of the marañon river.
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