Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill

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By Phoebe CookeAug 12, 2020, 8:48 am152 pts
Read time: 4 mins Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today. The Kichwa and Shuar tribes launched a lawsuit against the government and state-owned oil company Petroecuador in April…

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