$1 billion to clean up the oil in Peru’s northern Amazon

Over four decades of exploration and extraction have caused an environmental and health crisis in indigenous communitiesWho is going to clean up Peru’s northern Amazon after decades of companies spilling oil and dumping billions of barrels of toxic production waters? Certainly not US company Occidental which ran the biggest concession, Lot 1-AB, until 2000, nor, it would seem, Petroperu, which ran the other major concession, Lot 8, until 1996 and operates the rusty, leaking North Peruvian