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Causes
- Toxic waste water mixed with crude oil seeps out of 600 unlined pits into the subsoil.
- Hydrocarbons in the water are 200-300 times more concentrated than allowed for human consumption.
- Polluted water and surrounding soil.
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Effects
- Freshwater and farmland is polluted
- Stomach cancer is five times as frequent in oil extraction areas and miscarriages in the local indigenous people is more frequent. (Huaroni tribe)
- The periwinkle - a plant used to cure childhood leukemia - is now an endangered species.
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