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Article

28 Jul 2003

Author:
Elio Ohep, Petroleumworld

Amazon Watch: Peru´s Camisea "a tragedy in the making"

A preliminary report released Friday by U.S. NGOs Amazon Alliance, Amazon Watch and Environmental Defense confirms that the $2.6 billion Peru’s Camisea gas project is a tragedy, it has begun to cause food shortages and is leading to the spread of disease to indigenous communities in the Urubamba Valley...Texas-based independent Hunt Oil, head of the two Camisea consortia, has close ties to the Bush administration.