Tag: Peru
Oil spill: ban on leaving Peru for four Repsol officials
Peruvian soldiers collect oil that spilled on Chacra y Mar beach, near Huaral, Peru, on January 27, 2022 (AFP/Cris BOURONCLE) The Peruvian government on Friday doubled its estimate of the…
Tsunami, supertanker and oil spill: Peru in full clean-up operation
The tsunami that followed the underwater earthquake near the Tonga Islands caused very strong waves on the Peruvian coast. To the point of destabilizing an oil tanker unloading crude at…
Peru: 6,000 barrels of oil spilled, ongoing oil spill declared “environmental emergency”
6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled a week ago on the Peruvian coast, north of Lima. The government announced an “environmental emergency” on Saturday. The Peruvian government on Saturday announced…
Peru: an oil spill spreads on the coasts north of Lima
The coasts of Peru, north of Lima, are stained with oil that spilled at sea when crude oil was unloaded from a tanker at the La Pampilla refinery, owned by…
Peru declares ‘environmental emergency’ after oil spill
Volunteers clean Cavero beach after an oil spill in Peru, January 22, 2022. MARTIN MEJIA / AP The Peruvian government announced on Saturday a “environmental emergency” 90 days for the…
Peru declares an “environmental emergency” after the oil spill on its
ribs LIMA (awp/afp) – The Peruvian government announced on Saturday a 90-day “environmental emergency” for the coastal area damaged by the spill of 6,000 barrels of crude oil a week…
Oil spill in Peru: the government demands compensation from Repsol
At least 18,000 square meters were polluted by an oil spill in Peru, an environmental disaster attributed by the company to the swell caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga.…
Eruption and tsunami in the Pacific: the threat ended, significant damage in Tonga, two dead in Peru
“The tsunami had a significant impact on the northern coastline of Nuku’alofa”, the capital of the Tonga islands, “with boats and large rocks washed ashore”, but no casualties were reported…
In Peru, the condemnation of a journalist for defamation arouses indignation
Four days after the sentencing of a journalist and the publisher of his book to a two-year suspended prison sentence, Monday January 10, for the unauthorized biography of the politician…
Peru: nearly 100,000 children have been orphaned due to Covid-19
On January 6, the Minister for Women and Vulnerable Populations made an official report. Around 98,000 children are now orphans. Based on figures from the medical journal The Lancet, Anahi…
Presentation of a bill on cryptocurrencies in Peru
© Reuters Investing.com – Peru has introduced a cryptocurrency asset bill with the aim of regulating cryptocurrency exchanges. The bill, in addition to defining what a crypto asset is and…
Alberto Fujimori, ex-president of Peru, sued for forced sterilization of thousands of women
Recollection in front of the Lima courthouse for the thousands of women victims of “forced sterilizations”, orchestrated by Alberto Fujimori in Peru between 1996 and 2000, on the eve of…