For almost half a century, the Quechua, Achuar, and Kichwa Indigenous peoples of Northern Peru have suffered extreme negative environmental, health, cultural, social, and economic impacts as a result of the operations by oil companies, Occidental Petroleum and Pluspetrol.

​Their pipelines in the Peruvian Amazon have collapsed and degraded, leaking oil and heavy metals into the land. Communities are now not only fighting to protect the earth but also their health as hundreds are sick from contaminated water and food.

​In 2020, Indigenous leaders take their complaint to the Netherlands, where PlusPetrol transferred its headquarters in 2000. Research into its corporate structure suggests it did so to support its broader effort to avoid paying taxes in the countries where it operates.