Who Will Deal with the Thousands of Abandoned Oil Wells in Peru?

Inter Press Service: Peru has thousands of abandoned oil wells that continue to pollute their surroundings, with 269 considered to pose a serious hazard. But the government has yet to carry out an inventory in order to identify and subsequently clean up and seal them, despite a law passed in 2007 for this purpose. There are more than 6,000 environmental liabilities in the hydrocarbons sector, said Jorge Villar, an engineer from Peru's energy and mines regulator, OSINERGMIN. OSINERGMIN identified 1,821 improperly...

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