内容摘要：An Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community carries a little goat in the Somos Unidos neighborhood on the outskirts of Maicao, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

An Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community carries a little goat in the Somos Unidos neighborhood on the outskirts of Maicao, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

The environmental charity Greenpeace, however, called the effects of such spills on the environment significant.“The GTA field is home to the world’s largest deep-water coral reef, a unique ecosystem. A single spill can wipe out decades of marine biodiversity, contaminate food chains and destroy habitat,” it said in a statement.

Sitting outside a BP-built and branded fish refrigeration unit meant to help community relations, Mamadou Sarr, the president of the Saint Louis fishermen’s union, talked about the concerns.Sarr asserted that fish have become more scarce as they are attracted to the platform and away from several reefs that the people of Guet Ndar had fished for centuries.Drawing in the sand, he explained how the fish, drawn by the project’s lights and underwater support structures, no longer visit their old “homes.” Areas around the platforms are off-limits to fishermen.

Sarr also said an artificial reef that BP is building lies in the path of ships that regularly visit the structures, keeping the fish away.One fisherman, Abdou, showed off his catch after two days at sea: two insulated boxes full of fish, each about the size of an oil drum. A box of fish fetches 15,000 CFA, or $26.

Prior to the gas project, he said, he would get four or five boxes per two-day trip. Now, getting two is a win.

That worsens a problem already created byA man walks from the scene as law enforcement work the area after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington.(AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

A man walks from the scene as law enforcement work the area after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington.(AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Attorney General Pam Bondi, center, walks to her car as law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursay, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Attorney General Pam Bondi, center, walks to her car as law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursay, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)The two victims were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when