Peru sues Repsol for US$4.5B following January oil spill

Nowhere in the hemisphere have the risks associated with the oil industry been more graphically illustrated recently than in Peru when, back in January, a tanker spilled oil at a refinery owned by the Spanish oil company Repsol, the mishap reportedly directly affecting more than 700,000 Peruvians and causing the authorities there to have to effect an elaborate and costly cleanup.

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