Petroperú’s Financial Crisis Threatens Oil Spill Remediation Efforts
In September 2022, Olivia Bisa Tirko received distressing news: an oil spill had occurred in the Chapra Nation’s territory in the Peruvian Amazon. The North Peruvian Pipeline, operated by the state-owned Petroperú, had ruptured, releasing 2,500 barrels of oil into the Marañón River, a key Amazon tributary. “For us, it was a catastrophe,” Bisa Tirko, President of the Chapra Nation’s autonomous government, recounted during a video call with Mongabay. “Seeing this disaster in the place where you grew up,
