Fears For Isolated Bolivian Tribe Met By Chinese Oil Firm In Amazon
by The Daily Eye Team October 29 2016, 3:20 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secsTeams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters with a group of indigenous people living in what the United Nations calls “isolation”, raising major concern for the group’s welfare.
The company doing the exploring, BGP Bolivia, is ultimately a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world. The near encounters are reported to have taken place in the north-west of the country, close to the border with Peru and just to the east of the world-famous Madidi National Park.