Indigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and banking ...Middle East

LONDON (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests. HSBC bank, based in the United Kingdom, JPMorgan Chase in the United States and Santander in Spain helped finance the state-owned oil company Petroperu as it sought to upgrade a coastal refinery. The plant processes crude oil from a 680-mile (1,094-kilometer) pipeline that runs through rainforest. In the last decade there have been dozens of leaks along the pipeline. “We’ve been conserving our forest for over 7,000 years,” Pamuk Teófilo Kukush Pati, a Wampis leader, told

Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Indigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and banking )

Also on site :

• Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK
• Pacifica graduate Nohl Williams drafted in 3rd round by the Kansas City Chiefs
• Lana Del Rey Sings About Kissing Morgan Wallen, Covers Tammy Wynette and John Denver, and Goes Swinging in Unpredictable Stagecoach Set