Peru oil spill leaves jobless fishers in despair
Al Jazeera, 20 Feb 2022
The clean-up has been continuing, a month after a major oil spill at a Repsol facility in Peru.
The Spanish oil giant hopes to have cleared the spill by the end of March.
Peru’s environmental assessment and control agency could impose an $80m fine to Repsol while some of its executives have been barred from leaving the country.
Local fishers take no solace in that; they say the damage done will last for years, quashing their ability to make a living from now on.
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Lima, Peru.
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The Spanish oil giant hopes to have cleared the spill by the end of March.
Peru’s environmental assessment and control agency could impose an $80m fine to Repsol while some of its executives have been barred from leaving the country.
Local fishers take no solace in that; they say the damage done will last for years, quashing their ability to make a living from now on.
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Lima, Peru.
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