How have indigenous tribes on every continent been affected by the oil industry?
The oil industry has not been a particularly good neighbour to indigenous tribes when it’s gone into countries, especially third world countries, where there’s not a lot of environmental regulation. In South America, in Africa, and in many other parts of the globe with such indigenous tribes, where the oil industry go in and simply drill for oil, they leave their spent drilling muds which are the lubricants that lubricate the drilling wells. The oil industry also leave all kinds of other processed material and heavy metals, and oil itself, spewed all over the ground, and don’t clean it up. That creates toxic wastelands for the people, in many cases indigenous tribes, who live there yet will never benefit from oil and who don’t even use mechanized transportation.
