Environmental, social and religious groups are calling on the governor of northern Argentina’s Jujuy province to suspend oil operations in a national park that constitutes the biggest protected area in the Yungas, a forestland bordering the country’s Chaco region. Oil operations to tap the so-called El Caimancito reserve have been conducted off and on since the 1960s in the 5,700-hectare (14,000-acre) project area, which sits entirely within the 76,300-hectare (188,500-acre) Calilegua National Park. In 2011, the Chinese company JHP International Petroleum Engineering took on the project. It has since been attempting to put the site in working order and has started pumping a small volume of crude, roughly 40 cubic meters a day, in hopes of expanding production to 5,400... [Log in to read more]