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Article

5 Apr 2010

Author:
Milagros Salazar, IPS

Oil Pipeline and Uncontacted Tribes [Peru]

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A 200-km oil pipeline…Perenco aims to build in the...Amazon...is at the centre of a controversy because…according to the Peruvian Rainforest Inter-Ethnic Development Association (AIDESEP), the pipeline would run through the ancestral territory of the nomadic…tribes, which live in voluntary isolation…Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines, noted…Perenco had not included an "anthropological contingency plan" in its environmental impact study for the pipeline, as required…The ombudsman's office warned that the entry of outsiders…could have disastrous consequences…[including] the introduction of infectious diseases…Perenco told IPS that it had carried out a study with 24 experts from different institutions…which concluded that there was no presence of indigenous people in the area…AIDESEP, however, argued that…in its environmental impact study [Perenco] admitted to the possible presence of isolated indigenous groups.