Operations by gas consortium in Amazon reserve for vulnerable indigenous peoples met with legal action.
Tag: Camisea
Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people
The Peruvian government has approved plans for gas company Pluspetrol to move deeper into the buffer zone of the Manu National Park in the Amazon rainforest.
Pluspetrol got environmental approval to extract gas in the Peruvian Amazon
The project had been denied so far by the potential impact of work on isolated indigenous tribes. The Argentine oil company may start operating in three months.
Expansion of Camisea project violates rights and threatens lives
Project would be about to be approved after the January 13, 2014 Pluspetrol responded to the last three “observations” pending.
State should require to Pluspetrol correct EIA observations to Lot 88
Ombudsman recalled the state’s duty to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact.
Resolution with observations Block 88 project shall be void
Technical opinion for resolution would not adequately reviewed all information that supported the EIS.
Nahua indigenous will not allow expansion of Lot 88
Natives of the Nahua-Nanti Kagapakori reserve showed their opposition to the expansion of the gas project that will cause damage.