Problem 1 Oil exploitation in La Hormiga City
La Hormiga city is an important town in the Putumayo
Department. It is characterized as a typical town of the Amazonian region, it
has one of the most relevant environmental problem is the derived from the
extraction of petroleum, in the following list I am going to show some problems
caused by oil extraction.
1.
Oil spills.
The oil spills cause serial contamination of the
hydric sources for this reason a lot of aquatic species die and terrestrial and
aerial species that use the water of the rivers too.
Air pollution.
The permanent combustion and the release of toxic
elements make a constant air pollution causing damages to the atmosphere. When
we visit an oil plant we always see fire burning toxic gases, it is a terrible
thing. .
Hello Julian,
ResponderEliminarWell I think the problem in your community is something very big and is not easy to solve because it is caused by big factories and a lot of money is involved on it. Cutting down trees is very bad for the environment, the oil extraction causes damages to the soil and the air, and the oil spill contaminates our water sources.
In my opinion the government should stop this activity and find other ways or other resources to replace the use of oil. If this is impossible to do, then they should move the communities far from where the oil extractions are held.