Oil executives barred from leaving Peru after massive spill causes 'ecological disaster'

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Four oil executives in Peru have been barred from leaving the country as authorities investigate a massive oil spill that forced Lima to declare an environmental emergency earlier this month.

The travel ban will last for 18 months, according to Judge Romualdo Aguedo. It applies to four employees of the Spanish energy and oil company Repsol: the general manager of La Pampilla refinery, Jaime Fernández-Cuesta, and three company directors — Renzo Tejada, Gisela Posadas and José Rey.

The January 15 spill occurred as crude oil was being unloaded from a ship to the La Pampilla Refinery, which is managed by Repsol, after a powerful volcano erupted thousands of miles away in Tonga. "The crude oil spill constitutes a sudden and of significant impact event against the coastal marine ecosystem of a high biological diversity, and a high-risk for public health," the Peruvian government said in a statement last Sunday.

 

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If this was from the tsunami. The question is why did they commence oil transfer after the Tsunami warning was issued and why the ship was allowed to berth. Not stand off at the 12nm mark. It is good that goverments are holding those senior Executives to account

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