#PerencoSystem is a global investigation coordinated by the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) in partnership with Mediapart, InfoCongo, InfoAmazonia and Convoca documents the systemic ecological impact of Perenco worldwide.
Relying on data analysis and geolocation techniques, the investigation highlights numerous oil sites owned by the company whose surfaces are juxtaposed with protected sites, following up EIF’s focus on investigating the company since 2021 in Tunisia (for Inkyfada, Blast! and JeuneAfrique), and in DRC in 2022 for Disclose and Investigate Europe.
This is the case in at least 9 of the 14 countries where the company operates around 74 protected sites. The investigation focuses particularly on Africa and South America, in three countries (Cameroon, Gabon and Peru) where oil extraction by the Franco-British company has led to more than a hundred cases of pollution impacting protected ecosystems.
In particular, the investigation sheds a harsh light on the low level of protection afforded to protected areas in many countries, despite the fact that COP 15 set a target of 30% of the world’s marine and terrestrial areas to be protected by 2030.
The later chapters of this series uncovered over 400 hundreds cases of pollution, including 380 caused by flaring activities in Cameroun and Gabon and 58 environmental abuses in Peru, as well as concerns by local population about potential impact of Perenco’s activies on the local biosphere as well as on their own health.
View all of our publications of this project, supported by the JournalismFund Europe, below:
https://www.journalismfund.eu/perenco-global-damage
EIF members who participated to this investigation:
