Amazon community files lawsuit against Chinese firm over gas flaring
AFP, 11 Dec 2020
Indigenous Waorani from Ecuador's Amazon file a lawsuit 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. "We are tired of climate change, our grandparents said that we used to live well," says the community's president.
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