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Amazon community files lawsuit against Chinese firm over gas flaring

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2020-12-11

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.

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