- Title: Indigenous communities march against gas flares in Ecuador's Amazon
- Date: 13th March 2024
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (MARCH 12, 2024) (REUTERS) PEOPLE MARCHING DEMANDING FLARING TO STOP IN THE AMAZON VARIOUS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MARCHING AGAINST FLARING NUNS MARCHING WHILE HOLDING MAKESHIFT OIL FLARES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LAWYER, PABLO FAJARDO, SAYING: "These girls here won their case against the Ecuadorean state. The (state was) given 18 months to eliminate the flares an
- Embargoed: 27th March 2024 00:00
- Keywords: Amazon Ecuador Petroecuador flares flaring indigenous oil
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Pollution,Environment,South America / Central America
- Reuters ID: LVA001758112032024RP1
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- Story Text:Members of Ecuadorean indigenous communities marched on Tuesday (March 12) in Quito demanding that the government comply with court orders to halt the use of hundreds of gas flares by oil producers in the country's Amazon.
Among the protesters was a group of nine Amazonian youths that formed part of a 2020 plaintiff demanding the shutting down of 447 flares in the Sucumbios and Orellana regions. The youths demand the government to comply with the ruling issued in 2021, ordering to shut down the flares.
On 2021, the Ecuadorian justice system ruled in favour of the nine girls who argued that the impact of the flares violated their right to water, health, food sovereignty and a healthy and ecologically balanced environment.
According to Pablo Fajardo, lawyer representing the youths and the Union of People Affected by Texaco's Oil Operations (UDAPT), the Ministry of Energy and Mines had 18 months to eliminate all of the flare installations near the towns, but they have increased their operations, in violation of the sentence.
Protestors claim that the pollution affects populations near the flares, causing diseases such as cancer.
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