Amazon tribe files lawsuit against Chinese firm over gas flaring
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published : 11 Dec 2020 at 10:45
8 The Waorani indigenous women who filed a climate change lawsuit against Chinese oil company PetroOriental in El Coca, Orellana province, Ecuador, on Dec 10. (Photo: AFP)
PUERTO FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA, Ecuador: Indigenous Waorani from Ecuador s Amazon filed a lawsuit Thursday against state-owned Chinese oil company PetroOriental, accusing it of contaminating their ancestral lands by burning off natural gas from oil wells in a process known as flaring.
Leaders of the Waorani village of Miwaguno went to a court in Francisco de Orellana, the main town of Orellana province east of Quito, to file the lawsuit as victims.
Amazon community files lawsuit against Chinese firm over gas flaring
Listen | Print By Diego SÁNCHEZ (AFP) Dec 10, 2020 in Environment
Indigenous Waorani from Ecuador s Amazon filed a lawsuit Thursday against state-owned Chinese oil company PetroOriental, accusing it of contaminating their ancestral lands by burning off natural gas from oil wells in a process known as flaring.
Leaders of the Waorani village of Miwaguno went to a court in Francisco de Orellana, the main town of Orellana province east of Quito, to file the lawsuit as victims. We have seen our way of life altered forever, the community stated in the complaint. Our very survival is threatened as a result of climate change.
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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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