Peru Mayor Says Camisea Gas Pipeline Leak Contaminated Jungle Rivers, Sick

[Judi Lynn]

Peru Mayor Says Camisea Gas Pipeline Leak Contaminated Jungle Rivers, Sickening Hundreds

September 22, 2005 — By Associated Press
AYACUCHO, Peru — A district mayor threatened Wednesday to sue the operators of a pipeline that transports natural gas liquids from the Camisea gas fields in the country's southern Amazon after it sprang a leak in one of his villages.

Transportadora del Gas del Peru, or TGP, which runs the Camisea liquids pipeline, said Friday that it had evacuated about 200 people from the village of Toccate and temporarily closed a highway following the spill. But Celestino Romin, mayor of the Anco district, told The Associated Press that the damage was far more extensive.

The leak, which lasted about three hours, spread the gas liquids to the Toccate, Monterrico and Anchihuay rivers and other waterways, killing fish and sickening more than 500 people, he said.

"This gas is toxic," Romin said. "They've practically poisoned the entire river because the aquatic species have died."
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The Camisea project is run by an international consortium of companies, including Argentina's Pluspetrol and Techint, Texas--based Hunt Oil, South Korea's SK Corp. and Algeria's state--controlled Sonatrach.
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[RC]

1. Natural gas liquids?

Is it a gas? A liquid? What?

[Lilyhoney]

2. Here ya go.

Natural gas liquids
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Natural gas liquids are the liquids that, combined with methane, form natural gas. The liquids consist of ethane, propane, butane, isobutane and natural gasoline These liquids are used as petrochemical feedstocks, home heating fuels and refinery blending.

Before most natural gas is marketed to a distributor or an end-user, it is processed to remove the natural gas liquids (NGLs), which usually have more value on their own than when left in the natural gas. The product that results after NGLs are removed, called plant residue gas, consist of methane, which is the natural gas used as heating and cooking fuel.

After NGLs are removed from natural gas, they are reprocessed in a unit called a fractionator to break them out for individual sale as propane, butane and other products.
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Categories: Natural gas

[RC]

4. Thanks.

I don't usually have time in the morning to do much research.

[Massachusetts]

3. The Human species continues its self DESTRUCTION unabated!

[Wordie]

5. How tragic. So many in the U.S. feel powerless against the mega-corps,

imagine how much worse it is in 3rd world countries. I hope the mayor is successful.