Between 2015 and 2022, there have been more than 2,133 environmentally damaging incidents involving Colombia’s oil industry.
in that country. While those countries garner the lions share of attention concerning environmental damage caused by industry operations the hydrocarbon sector in Colombia is among the continent’s worst perpetrators.
For decades Colombia’s national government in Bogota has held out the Andean country's oil industry as a model of success. Despite Colombia possessing, totaling 1.8 billion barrels at the end of 2021 with a 6-year production life, the country punches above its weight when it comes to production volumes. For September 2022, Colombia’s average daily oil output was 753,584 barrels per day.
This lack of transparency in a country where censorship of the media and the murder of environmental defenders is not surprising. There have been
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