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Authorities respond to environmental emergency due to oil spill in Ecuador / 372L4ZW
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State-owned Petroecuador works to address the emergency at the pipeline, part of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) which transports crude oil from the Amazon after an oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black. The incident prompted authorities to declare an environmental emergency and order residents to ration drinking water.
The spill, believed to have been caused when a landslide ruptured a major oil pipeline, has contaminated a section of the Esmeraldas River in the province of the same name. "Someone has to take responsibility here," says Edita Ceballos, a social leader. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES TO COMPLETE 372K9C7_EN