Oil and Indigenous Peoples—Peru

Occidental Petroleum, the California-based company that pulled a fortune from this rain forest from 1972 to 2000, is also the company that Maynas and other Achuar leaders now blame for wreaking environmental havoc—and leaving many of the people here ill. In this Washington Post article about oil and indigenous peoples in Peru, several Greengrants grantees—Shinai, the Achuar (FECONACO), and Racimos de Ungurahui—are mentioned as well as our own deputy program director, Peter Kostishack.
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