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June 6, 2024

Indigenous Activists in Ecuador Call for End to Gas Flares in Amazon
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In Ecuador, Indigenous and environmental activists demonstrated against
state-run oil company Petroecuador Wednesday, after it failed to comply
with a court order to shut down gas flares in the Amazon. The flares
burn off gas created during oil production. This is Indigenous activist
Nancy Pilatuña.

Nancy Pilatuña: "There's groups that are at the brink of extermination,
polluted rivers and polluted water sources that affect city folk, as
well. It's not an isolated reality. … If the Amazon is destroyed, then
it will affect all of the Ecuadorian people."



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