Produced by:
KBOO
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Air date:
Thu, 02/25/2016 - 12:00am
How Frequent Are Oil Spills in the Amazon?
As many as eight separate indigenous communities along the banks of the Amazon in Northwestern Peru continue to clean crude oil from a series of pipeline ruptures which began in late January.
KBOO reporter Robin Ryan spoke with an expert at Amazon Watch about the regularity of such incidents as he estimates there have been as many as twenty spills over the last five years.
KBOO reporter Robin Ryan spoke with an expert at Amazon Watch about the regularity of such incidents as he estimates there have been as many as twenty spills over the last five years.
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