Oil spill in Ecuador Amazon region blamed on 'sabotage'
11 May 2023, 09:32
Oil spill in Ecuador Amazon region blamed on 'sabotage'
QUITO, May 11, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - A state oil pipeline in Ecuador was hit by an act of "sabotage" on Wednesday, causing an oil spill into a river in the Amazon basin, the national company Petroecuador said.
The "sabotage" on the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) caused a leak of crude that was "intentionally near a body of water" on the outskirts of Lago Agrio in the east, the company said in a statement, without specifying the amount of oil spilled or what the act of sabotage was.
"The emergency has been controlled," said Petroecuador, which temporarily suspended its operations and mobilized personnel to contain and clean up the spill. Oil company workers placed containment barriers on the banks and across a river, according to photographs released by the firm on Twitter.
"New environmental disaster, the waters of the Conejo river contaminated by oil in the province of #Sucumbios," the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon said on Twitter.
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