The Peruvian mining and energy regulatory agency Osinergmin fined
Peruvian state-owned oil company Petro-Perú $3.6 million for two oil spills in
the Amazon jungle. Peru reports explained that the fine was specifically for
Petro-Perú’s failure to install brackets on the specified sections of the
Northern Peruvian Pipeline as well as not completing a risk-management study.
Osignergmin cautioned that further fines could be levied
against Petro-Perú depending on the results of investigations into the pipeline
oil spills. At the very least, Petro-Perú president Germán Velasquez seemed
appropriately remorseful, saing, “What happened is horrible … but we are acting
to remedy it. Petroperu will not stop until there is not a single drop of oil
left. And in each of these events, we are going in with medical equipment.
El
Comercio also reported that, according to Velásquez, several Petro-Perú
officials have already been fired as a result of the oil spills. Furthermore,
the oil company has already initiated a top-to-bottom review of the Northern
Peruvian Pipeline to ensure that these spills do not recur.
In mining-related news, La
República reported that Peruvian preseidential candidate Alan García that,
if elected president, he would invalidate the decrees that the Humala
Administration has issued to formalized small and artisanal miners. He argued
that these norms “had demonized and persecuted small and artisanal miners
because they had turned them into money launderers.” García announced that he
would roll back the law to the regulations that had existed during his
presidential administration.
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