Peru Ignores UN and Pushes Ahead with Deadly Gas Project
January 14, 2014
3:05 PM
Peru Ignores UN and Pushes Ahead with Deadly Gas Project
PERU - January 14 - Peru’s government is on the brink of approving the expansion of the highly controversialCamisea gas projectinto the land ofuncontacted and isolated tribes; ignoring a recent UN recommendation to first carry out ‘extensive studies’ over the threats posed to the vulnerable Indians.
Peru’s Ministry of Culture has approved a plan to expand the $1.6 billion Camisea project – run by Argentina’s Pluspetrol, US’s Hunt Oil and Spain’s Repsol – once three minor conditions are met, raising fears that expansion is imminent.
Any contact with gas workers could introduce fatal diseases tothe uncontacted Indians. When Shell carried out initial explorations in the area during the 1980s, half the Nahua tribe was wiped out following first contact with outsiders.
The expansion plan includes the detonation of thousands of explosive charges, and the drilling of exploratory wells using heavy equipment, and involving hundreds of workers. It would take place inside the Nahua-Nanti Reserve for uncontacted and isolated Indians.
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