Oil development in the jungle to fund life-saving community sanitation infrastructure

Artist rendering of natives celebrating petroleum and the
and the benefits it will bring to their lives.

 

By Amazon River Sun Staff
 

RIO GRANDE -- Bolero News Services announced an entrepreneurial venture Wednesday, which is expected to benefit many in the jungle community.  

Exploratory drilling at the Xoco camp revealed a large oil reserve deep beneath the surface. Bolero News Services is partnering with Juan’s Oilfield Services to develop the petroleum resource. 

“It’s amazing how many untapped resources can be found here in the Amazon, and with the lax regulatory environment, it’s very easy to develop them,” Persephone Bolero, CEO of Bolero News Services, told the Amazon River Sun. 

The partnership between the two companies will be operating as Bolero Petroleum Resources LLC.

Bolero said that a portion of the proceeds from the oil will be used to fund valuable sanitary infrastructure projects in the jungle. A recent Sun report discovered a strong correlation between the lack of sanitary practices in the jungle and cases of cholera along the river. 

She explained that natives are very suspicious of modern life-saving practices, including sanitation and advanced medicine.

Persephone Bolero said Bolero Petroleum Resources LLC
will provide natives with lessons on how to be sanitary.

Khaing Zar, chieftess of the Xoco, told the Sun during a weekly community dinner that the natives’ aversion to toilets is healthy and they regularly collect their feces to produce food. 

“We have sanitation! Not the filthy polluted rivers and coastlines of the cities, but the fast flowing Amazon. And dung is processed for crops and fuel,” Zar said. 

Zar vowed that she and her tribe would protect her “sacred places” and would sic her concubine on anyone trying to develop resources. 

“You won’t know what hit you!” Zar roared. 

Bolero said that thanks to the technology of horizontal drilling, which was developed in the United States, the Xoco won’t even be aware of the operation taking place beneath their camp. 

Horizontal drilling has no impacts to natives

“It’s completely safe. The Xoco can dance, drink and sit around doing nothing without being disturbed,” Bolero explained. 

The pad is the only part of the operation that’s visible on the surface, and Bolero said for security purposes it’s location is being withheld. 

She said that she expects that the proceeds will begin funding the construction of outhouses within a month.