tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243783982024-03-05T12:31:53.991-08:00Blog de CamiseaNews and updates about the impacts of the Camisea natural gas project on the Indigenous Peoples of the Peruvian AmazonPeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-49432315139343310562008-08-11T19:38:00.000-07:002008-08-11T20:30:08.710-07:00Indigenous Protesters Shut Down Urubamba, Take Over WellsAugust 9th was the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as recognized by the United Nations. Despite last year’s adoption of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights, indigenous peoples continue to face discrimination and violation of their rights. In the Peruvian Amazon, indigenous peoples marked the day with the launch of a nation-wide protest against recent government policies Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-91499741796531202782008-02-29T14:33:00.000-08:002008-02-29T14:42:14.085-08:00Lo Que No Se Dice de los Contratos de CamiseaNota de Prensa Lo Que No Se Dice de Los Contratos de CamiseaNo se dice que el contrato de Camisea que se cuestiona hoy, NO es el contrato original que firmó el Ing. Carlos Herrera Descalzi cuando fue Ministro.No se dice que ese contrato original, firmado durante el Gobierno de Transición por Herrera Descalzi, SÍ protegía a los peruanos asegurando su demanda interna de gas por 20 años Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-13478467472153691782007-12-17T14:52:00.000-08:002007-12-17T15:39:38.327-08:00Does It Make Sense to Export Camisea Gas?With the IDB on the verge this week to make a decision to finance Camisea II, the export phase of the Camisea project, aka Peru LNG, an article in today's El Comercio reports that it could be a grave economic error for Peru to export its gas. According to an analysis by Glen Jenkins of Environmental Defense, at current oil prices, it would be more cost effective for Peru to secure its internal Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-8943730876492265642007-11-21T09:08:00.000-08:002007-11-21T09:13:06.311-08:00Report of Pipeline Spill in Chillinga, AyacuchoPeru's Coordinadora Nacional de Radio is reporting a new break in the Camisea pipeline occurring Tuesday morning in the La Mar province of Ayacucho. Authorities from the community of Chillinga, 40 km from the District of San Miguel claim that the rupture has caused the spill of "a large amount of hydrocarbons."A recent technical audit of the pipeline's integrity was recently completed by the Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-52104628896566500762007-10-12T11:06:00.000-07:002007-10-12T12:23:25.782-07:00Listen to the Human Rights Hearing on Isolated PeoplesHere's a link to the audio recording of today's hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (The vast majority of the audio is in Spanish.)The hearing was regarding three petitions submitted to the Commission related to the situation of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation in Peru – Precautionary Measures 102/07 on the Kugpakori Nahua Nanti and others affected by Block 88 (Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-49837557144161883672007-10-01T16:03:00.000-07:002007-10-02T07:08:55.334-07:00How Not to Contact Isolated Peoples: Repsol and Barrett Take a Page from CamiseaSurvival International reports that the oil companies Barrett Resources (US) and Repsol YPF (Spain), have instructed their oil workers to shout through megaphones in the event that they come across uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon. Both companies have leased exploration blocks in regions where indigenous peoples are living in voluntary isolation. Barrett is operating in Block 67 on thePeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-4976103249277785382007-09-28T08:48:00.000-07:002007-09-28T09:26:43.773-07:00InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights to Hold Hearing on Isolated Peoples in PeruOn August 7, 2007, the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States adopted Precautionary Measure 102-07 requiring the Peruvian government to provide information about its efforts to protect the rights of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact that inhabit the Nahua, Kugapakori, and Nanti Territorial Reserve, affected by the Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-20107554329884088162007-09-28T08:02:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:42:36.110-07:00New Report Finds Camisea Fails IDB and IFC StandardsThe September 2007 report, Holding the IDB and IFC to account on Camisea II, is available for download from Amazon Watch. The report, by anthropologist, Tom Griffiths, highlights some of the major environmental and social problems of Camisea I and II and concludes that the Camisea consortium's community engagement in Block 56 has violated international standards on protecting the rights of Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-73564586243641663242007-09-28T07:19:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:48:08.589-07:00Community Members Sickened by Gas in Lower UrubambaOn September 10th the native community Chocoriari and the Tupac Amaru colonist settlement reported cases of community members being sickened by a supposed gas escape at km 12.100 of the Camisea pipeline. Four people were stricken with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and three were taken away for medical attention. Community members claim that this was cased by a new pipeline spill. TGP respondedPeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-80800311966399127032007-09-27T13:51:00.000-07:002007-09-28T09:30:56.171-07:00Department of Propaganda: Energy Project Saves RainforestEarlier this month, the Latin Business Chronicle published an article titled, Peru Energy Project Saves Rainforest, which credits the Camisea Project with saving 1.5 million hectares of Peruvian rainforest. The article, written by the InterAmerican Development Bank's Roger Hamilton, is reprinted from the IDB's own IDBAmerica magazine. In the article, a wide-eyed Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-16746999299772486862007-09-08T15:29:00.000-07:002007-09-08T16:31:48.449-07:00Cusco Plans New Roads into the Lower Urubamba, Manu National ParkOne of the more frightening side-effects of Camisea is the incursion of new roads into the Lower Urubamba. With the Department of Cusco flush with cash from gas royalties, restricted to investment only in infrastructure, planners are doing what they know best - build roads. And some of those roads will soon open up extremely remote parts of the Amazon, threatening indigenous territories and Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-14963242842921710492007-06-07T11:21:00.001-07:002007-06-07T11:51:52.474-07:00Congressional Hearing Highlights Environmental Impacts of CamiseaOn June 4th, 2007 a hearing was held in the Peruvian Congress on "Camisea Gas and the Development of the Affected Communities. Presenters included the mayors of Pisco and Anco-La Mar as well as Congressional representatives from the regions of Huancavelica and Ayacucho. Wílder Manyavilca, Mayor of the province of Anco-La Mar (Ayacucho) described the damage to forests, contamination of water andPeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-67113790029622695812007-06-07T08:16:00.001-07:002007-06-07T10:43:15.549-07:00Skanska and Techint Investigated in Bribery SkandalArgentina's Techint and the Swedish transnational, Skanska, which worked together on the Camisea pipeline and Malvinas plant, are in the center of a money laundering and bribery scandal.As reported in the Economist, Techint controls another gas pipeline in Argentina, called Transportadora de Gas del Norte (TGN), which the government paid with a trust fund to expand a pipeline carrying gas from Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-4665041871385746202007-06-07T07:26:00.000-07:002007-06-07T08:05:21.877-07:00Thousands March to Protest Camisea Plant in PiscoOn June 6th, between 3 and 5 thousand protesters, led by Pisco Mayor, Juan Mendoza Uribe, peacefully marched to Pluspetrol's gas fractionation plant, approximately 10 km south of the city to protest the construction of the plant within the buffer zone of the Paracas National Reserve. According to the Peruvian news, the demonstrators are demanding the revision of the socio-environmental contractPeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-74261550806147256212007-06-07T06:52:00.000-07:002007-06-07T07:26:20.737-07:00Cusco Government Declares State of Emergency in KumpirishiatoOn June 5, 2007, the Natural Resources Bureau of the Cusco regional government declared a State of Emergency for the Kumpirishiato watershed because of the spills from the Camisea pipeline. Kumpirishiato is the site of the pipeline's most recent spill on April 2, 2007 at km 125. According to a government official, the measure was taken to draw the attention of the federal government in order Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-60466106160658385512007-05-24T07:10:00.000-07:002007-05-24T07:57:37.200-07:00Camisea Protesters Block Road to Quillabamba, Threaten to Take Over PipelineProtesters in the province of La Convención have launched an indefinite blockade of the road between the provincial capital of Quillabamba and Cusco, closing access to the town and leaving scores of vehicles stranded. All businesses and public institutions in the Province are closed due the marching of thousands of protesters, led by the provincial mayor and nine district mayors, who are Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-59449817716888950202007-05-03T12:16:00.000-07:002007-09-27T15:57:59.775-07:00Using Google Earth to See Pipeline ErosionIf you use the free GIS program, Google Earth, you can get a good aerial view of the pipeline right-of-way and the tremendous erosion caused by construction.Just copy and paste the following sets of lat,long coordinates into the Google Earth search field (one at a time):12°14'15.13"S, 73° 0'36.96"W12°12'32.64"S, 73° 0'27.60"WThe above sites are both in the Machiguenga Communal Reserve. The Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-91275148423688210072007-05-03T11:20:00.000-07:002007-06-07T07:22:26.996-07:00More on 6th Pipeline SpillA segment on the program Reporte Semanal on Chanel 2 covers the latest spill, visiting the place where it occurred in Kepashiato. According to TGP, the latest spill amounted to 36 gallons, while the regional government has reported a loss of 4,000 barrels. The reporter visited colonist and Machiguenga communities where there found that people do not know what to do in the case of a pipeline Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-53885116823829975242007-05-01T15:06:00.000-07:002007-05-03T11:19:57.352-07:00USAID Report to Congress Links PeruLNG to Camisea IA report obtained by Oxfam America through the Freedom of Information Act submitted by USAID to Congress reveals that agency's concerns with the Camisea Natural Gas Project and links it directly to the development of PeruLNG aka Camisea II.USAID must report on the project because US tax dollars contributed to the $75 million IDB loan granted to the downstream (pipeline) portion of the Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-9527713552343142682007-05-01T14:29:00.000-07:002007-05-01T14:50:49.628-07:00Brief: IFC to Consider Financing Camisea IISources recently reported that the Policy Committee of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, has given the lender a green-light to consider financing Hunt Oil for Peru LNG or Camisea II. The IFC has a performance standard on indigenous peoples. The upcoming project approval process should be interesting to watch.Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-30600692070664262792007-05-01T11:39:00.000-07:002007-09-27T15:57:59.776-07:00Defensoria del Pueblo: Perupetro Must Coordinate with INRENA and INDEPA on New BlocksA March 20, 2007 report by the office of Peru's Public Ombudsperson (Defensoria del Pueblo) analyzes the overlap of Peru's 18 new hydrocarbon exploration concessions with Natural Protected Areas, Protected Area Buffer Zones, Reserve Zones (a transitional protection status), and existing and proposed Territorial Reserves for indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The report cites datePeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-20897215754666780312007-04-11T09:42:00.000-07:002007-06-07T07:22:26.996-07:00Pipeline Suffers 6th RuptureOn April 3, 2007, TGP reported to the press that it had detected an "anomaly" in the liquid gas pipeline at kilometer 125 in the community of Kepashiato in the Cumpirishiato Valley. The company categorized the situation as "under control" saying that it was only a "bubble" (burbujeo) and that it had caused no environmental or social damage.However according to the Associated Press, a technical Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-61117622240686005002007-03-14T19:00:00.000-07:002007-06-07T11:17:35.814-07:00NACLA: The Camisea Cover-UpKelly Hearn, writing for the North American Congress on Latin America, provides a detailed account of the concerns about the integrity of the Camisea pipeline as first reported by the NGO, E-Tech. E-Tech's initial report was issued in early 2006, only a week before a pipeline explosion occurred in Echarate. Hearn interviewed an anonymous inspector, "Andrés" who showed him a copy of an inspectionPeter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-82596506247843112432007-01-25T07:43:00.000-08:002007-06-07T11:15:49.611-07:00Malvinas: Corners Cut in Corrosion PreventionIn a piece called "Camisea: complicidades y negligencias," reporter, Herbert Mujica Rojas, brings to light Report No. 080-2005-CR/JVR from May 2005, to Peru's Congressional Committee for Fiscalización y Contraloría. The commission found evidence that the consortium Sade Skanska Latintecna JJC (today known as Skanska Peru) did not comply with technical specifications for corrosion prevention in Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-68248646650731669442007-01-16T14:34:00.000-08:002007-06-07T07:22:26.997-07:00Camisea II: Hunt Oil May Build Second Pipeline in AmazonSince October, we have been hearing diverse accounts that Peru LNG - the consortium led by Hunt Oil (US) and including SK Corporation (South Korea) and Repsol YPF (Spain) is considering building a second pipeline originating from the Las Malvinas facility in the Lower Urubamba region to feed its LNG plant in Pampa Melchorita with gas from Block 56. According to the Peru LNG's website, and the Peter Kostishackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07075873478745729144noreply@blogger.com0