Peru, New Maple Energy Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon

According to AmazonWatch.org, a pipeline rupture in Maple Energy’s Oil Block 31-E, 75 miles north of the city of Pucallpa, spilled crude oil into the Mashiria River, the primary source of drinking water and key fishing ground for the neighboring indigenous Shipibo community of Nuevo Sucre, this past Sunday. The local operator for the Dublin incorporated transnational has employed 32 community members to clean up the spill with rags and buckets without training, protective gear, or information about the health effects of petroleum. Read Article