2023-12-04
PARIS - The "Perenco System" international investigation coordinated by the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) in partnership with Mediapart, InfoCongo, InfoAmazonia and Convoca documents the systemic ecological impact of Perenco worldwide.
Relying on data analysis and geolocation techniques, the investigation highlights numerous oil sites owned by the company whose surfaces are juxtaposed with protected sites.
This is the case in at least 9 of the 14 countries where the company operates around 74 protected sites. The investigation focuses particularly on Africa and South America, in three countries (Cameroon, Gabon and Peru) where oil extraction by the Franco-British company has led to more than a hundred cases of pollution impacting protected ecosystems.
In particular, the investigation sheds a harsh light on the low level of protection afforded to protected areas in many countries, despite the fact that COP 15 set a target of 30% of the world's marine and terrestrial areas to be protected by 2030.
The later chapters of this series uncovered over 400 hundreds cases of pollution, including 380 caused by flaring activities in Cameroun and Gabon and 58 environmental abuses in Peru, as well as concerns by local population about potential impact of Perenco's activies on the local biosphere as well as on their own health.
Photo credit: InfoCongo
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- Pétrole : le géant Perenco opère abusivement dans 70 sites protégés dans le monde MediaPart, 04/12/2023
- Hydrocarbon licenses and protected areas: Perenco’s global system of abuses, InfoAmazonia, 04/12/2023
- Concessões de petróleo em áreas protegidas: o sistema global de abusos da Perenco, InfoAmazonia, 04/12/2023
- Licencias de hidrocarburos y áreas protegidas: el sistema global de abusos de Perenco, Convoca, 04/12/2023
- Les sites pétro-gaziers de Perenco chevauchent 74 aires protégées dans le monde, InfoCongo, 04/12/2023
- In the Congo Basin, Perenco poisons the air by constantly flaring natural gas, InfoCongo, 11/12/2023
- Dans le bassin du Congo, Perenco pollue l’air en brûlant du gaz naturel en continu, InfoCongo, 11/12/2023
- Dans le bassin du Congo, les sites de Perenco polluent gravement l’air, MediaPart, 11/12/2023
- O silêncio da petroleira franco-britânica Perenco diante dos danos ambientais causados na Amazônia peruana, InfoAmazonia, 18/12/2023
- Perenco: no word from oil firm about environmental damages in Peruvian Amazon, InfoAmazonia, 18/12/2023
- El silencio de la petrolera Perenco ante los daños ambientales ocasionados en la Amazonía peruana, InfoAmazonia, 18/12/2023
- El silencio de la petrolera franco-británica Perenco ante los daños ambientales ocasionados en la Amazonía peruana, Convoca, 18/12/2023
- El silencio de Perenco: la petrolera ocultó infracciones ambientales a comunidades indígenas de Loreto, Diario La República, 19/12/2023
- Au Pérou, le pétrolier Perenco pollue et abandonne les communautés autochtones, MediaPart, 19/12/2023
COUNTRIES
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Congo
- France
- Gabon
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Tunisia
- Venezuela
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