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A Peruvian judge on Friday banned Repsol's Peru director and three other executives from leaving the country for 18 months while the government investigates an oil spill at a refinery run by the Spain-based company.
A pipeline spilled some 2,500 barrels of crude oil into the Cuninico river, a main stream that feeds the Maranon River in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, prompting the government to declare Peru a 90-day state of emergency in the area.
After 11,000 barrels of crude oil were spilled into Peru’s South Pacific Ocean, an activist has 'married the sea' in a moving ecological protest.View on euronews
Fisherman Luis Diaz and his relatives and neighbours in Aucallama, Peru, suffer increasingly as they are out of work as it is impossible to fish and there is a lack of tourists, one month after an oil spill that hit the coast.
Lima Zoo veterinarians work every day to wash, feed and monitor the vital signs of Humbolt penguins, a threatened species, and several other seabirds that were saved after nearly 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the sea off Peru on January 15.
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