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Peru Opens Controversial Gas Pipeline, August 11, 2004

Argentina's PlusPetrol and a consortium of smaller companies finished a $1.6 billion dollar pipeline designed to take the natural gas from the Andes and transport it all the way to Lima, after a two year journey of being fined by crossing a natural reserve illegally and creating an environmental disaster with exposed clearing debris. Environmentalists as well as the native inhabitants of the jungle occuse the Camisea pipeline of causing irreversible destruction of untouched virgin jungle land, as well as damaging the lives of the inhabitants by introducing diseases and creating food contamination. The project has created 14,000 jobs already, and is expected to indirectly create 55,000 more, and will serve to reduce the cost for energy in Peru by as much as half, and on a global scene, make Peruvian industry more competitive.


News Stories:

"Peru prepares for the gas age "
BBC News August 9, 2004
"Camisea, un sueño hecho realidad "
La Republica (Peru) August 6, 2004
"Peru Tribes Fear Camisea Gas May Bring Extinction "
Reuters August 6, 2004
"Camisea Consortium prepares for production, continues testing "
Oil & Gas Journal July 27, 2004
"Inter-American Development Bank Blasted for Backing Risky Camisea Project in Peru "
Friends of the Earth September 10, 2003

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