The RSPB has called for ships at sea to be banned from discharging an oil additive which contaminated hundreds of birds on the south coast of England.

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He said not just the Pastaza, but two other river basins where Pluspetrol has oil fields, are contaminated: The Corrientes and the Tigre.

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Birds washed ashore on the south coast after being contaminated with an oil additive have been transferred to a wildlife centre in East Sussex.

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And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.

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