A pipeline rupture in Maple Energy's Oil Block 31-E, 75 miles north of the city of Pucallpa, spilled crude oil into the Mashiria River, the primary source of drinking water and key fishing ground for the neighboring indigenous Shipibo community of Nuevo Sucre...The local operator for the Dublin incorporated transnational has employed 32 community members to clean up the spill with rags and buckets without training, protective gear, or information about the health effects of petroleum. On…July 10…children…saw crude floating down the river. Representatives of Maple made no announcement of the spill or its effects on water quality to community members…on their health…This is the 6th spill in just over two years from Maple Energy's oil operations...in the Loreto region...[response below from the company only available in Spanish]