Spillover

A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the indigenous Waorani people are imploring authorities to stop drilling for the black gold that keeps spilling into their environment.

Petroecuador, a local oil company, admitted that an undetermined amount of oil leaked into the environment from one of its blocks, contaminating water sources in several towns and reaching the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon River.

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