Oil Spills Plague Colombia’s Petroleum Industry | OilPrice.com

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Oil spills and environmental contamination damage Colombia's ecosystem and pose risks to natural resources and local communities.

Extractive industries, especially oil operations, in Colombia are heavily impacting the environment.

A considerable portion of Colombia's oil operations is located in the Amazon, posing a significant risk to natural resources and nearby communities.Extractive industries in Colombia, primarily oil, coal and gold mining, are heavily impacting the strife-torn country’s environment. While oil spills and other forms of environmental contamination are frequent, there is very little coverage of those incidents.

While oil companies are to blame for a significant portion of the spills occurring in Colombia, they are also the result of attacks on industry infrastructure by leftist guerillas, petroleum theft and the operation of illicit jungle refineries. A by Colombian think tanks Ideas for Peace Foundation and Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement counts 3,659 attacks on industry infrastructure between 1 May 1986 and 24 November 2016.

 

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