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A handout photo made available by the Municipality of Ventanilla showing the cleaning work of the oil spill spilled on 15 January into the Pacific Ocean from the Peruvian refinery of La Pampilla, by the tsunami from the volcanic eruption of Tonga, in Lima, Peru, 19 January 2022. Although the La Pampilla Refinery, operated by Repsol, initially told the Peruvian Prosecutor's Office that the spill had been about seven gallons of crude oil, it has already affected several beaches and protected natural areas in the municipality of Ventanilla, in the constitutional province of Callao, which is adjacent to Lima. “It has gone from being a small spill to being a disaster of proportions”, according to the mayor of Ventanilla, Pedro Spadaro. (Photo by Cristhian Meza/Municipality of Ventanilla/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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