CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO AVOID ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN THE AMAZON REGION OF LORETO, PERU

Abstract

The Corporate Social Responsibility managed by the Petroperu Company as a policy is committed to good business practices: respect for the environment and basic human rights. However, in recent years, this has been viewed with an evil eye due to the number of hydrocarbon spills or mismanagement, such as pipeline maintenance, which on many occasions has caused these spills and the fines issued to the company. However, it is well known that the company blames the same communities for the spills, this being a big lie as seen in the results of all investigations carried out for each spill. The residents complain about the serious health problems and the environmental pollution produced by these hydrocarbon spills hindering the ecosystem recovery. Many residents are hired by the company to clean up spills without the necessary protection that further affects their health due to high concentrations of lead, cadmium, and arsenic in their bodies, not counting the contamination of rivers. This affects all the towns that are connected by the basins. For this reason, the following objective has been formulated: to identify how the corporate social Responsibility of the state company Petroperú avoids environmental pollution in the Amazon region of Loreto. The methodology was based on the bivariate descriptive level; the Likert scale questionnaire was applied as the research instrument covering 50 people from the Nuevo Progresso indigenous community. The alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted based on the results obtained by the statistical diagrams in the SPSS.