Two dozen workers used six excavators to clear a strip of forest in the foothills of Ecuador's Reventador volcano in late June, hoping to ready a new route for an oil pipeline and avoid a major oil spill in decades, according to Reuters. The SOTE pipeline, which carries around two-thirds of the production from oil fields deep in the Ecuadorean Amazon, has been under constant threat from violent erosion of the Coca River since the San Rafael waterfall collapsed in early 2020.
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