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At Least 10,000 Gallons
Of Crude Residues Spill
In Ecuador
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At Least 10,000 Gallons
Of Crude Residues Spill
In Ecuador
QUITO -- At least 10,000
gallons (37,854 liters)
of petroleum residues
were spilled into a
river in Ecuador along
the border with
Colombia, local media
reported Wednesday.
The accident occurred
when a tanker traveling
from the industrial
region of Shushufindi to
the Ecuadoran capital
Quito tipped over in the
Aguarico river, local TV
Ecuavisa reported.
The crude spilled over
an area of 800 square
meters contaminating
both the water and the
tideland along the
river. The possible
consequences for the
communities living in
the area were not
mentioned.
The Environment
Protection Management of
Petroproduction, a
subsidiary of the
national oil company
Petroecuador, activated
an emergency plan and
sent two cleaning groups
to set restraint
barriers and absorbent
materials to prevent the
crude from further
expanding and to
minimize the
environmental impact.
Last June, a petroleum
leakage affected an area
of 4,000 square meters
in the Amazonia river
when a oil pipe broke
some 190 km east of
Quito, Petroecuador
said.
Another oil spill
occurred last year in
the province of
Sucumbios, contaminating
the Cuyabeno Fauna
Reserve lagoons which
boasts 14 unique
ecosystems in the
country, some of them
even rare in the world.
In August 2007 in the
Cuyabeno river,
Petroecuador lost in a
oil leakage some 600
barrels, about 0.3
percent of their daily
production. The economic
loss was estimated at
35,000 U.S. dollars
while the cost of
environmental recovery
amounted to 910,000
dollars.
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