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The Waorani tribe from the Amazon of Ecuador filed a lawsuit against the Chinese Oil Company PetroOriental on Thursday, accusing the company of contaminating their ancestral lands by flaring, the burning of natural gas from oil wells.
The indigenous community is objecting to the practice of flaring where millions of cubic meters produced from wells are deliberately burned by oil producers.
The leaders of the Waorani village of Miwaguno filed a lawsuit in the court of Francisco de Orellana as victims of the environmental contamination.
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According to Menare Omene, a 52-year-old Waorani woman, The rainfall tastes like coal. We still use it because we don t have drinking water. Omene s community of about 150 people filed the complaint against the oil company.