tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243783982011-08-22T00:51:25.990-07:00News 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.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24378398.post-49432315139343310562008-08-11T19:38:00.000-07:002008-08-11T20:30:08.710-07:00

August 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

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Nota 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

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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

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Peru'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

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Here'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 (

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Survival 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 the

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On 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

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The 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

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On 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 responded

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Earlier 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

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One 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

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On 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 and

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Argentina'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

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On 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 contract

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On 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

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Protesters 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

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If 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

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A 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

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A 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

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Sources 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.

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A 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 date

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On 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

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Kelly 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 inspection

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In 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

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Since 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

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Check out Indian Country Today's recent three-part series on the Camisea Project. Reporter Lisa Garrigues visited communities in the Upper and Lower Urubamba as well as Quillabamba and reports on the conditions in the Machiguenga, Yine, and Quechua communities.Garrigues offers an in-depth report on the changes in health, nutrition and culture in indigenous communities since the project

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Peru's news daily, La Primera, has an interview with E-Tech International engineer, Bill Powers who shares his skepticism of TGP's latest report on the status of the Camisea Pipeline. He accuses TGP of placing the blame for multiple pipeline spills on mother nature while having not taken the time to adequately control erosion during pipeline construction. He also says that TGP's "intelligent

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Perupetro SA, Peru's state company responsible for promoting hydrocarbon exploration and development recently released a new map showing existing and planned concession blocks. The new map shows a number of new areas of the Peruvian Amazon now open for oil and gas exploration including the Sierra del Divisor Reserve Zone that borders Brazil. The portion of Peru's 67 million hectares of Amazon

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An October 27 Ministerial Resolution has created a multi-sectoral committee reporting to the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) in order to ensure compliance with the environmental and social conditions of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) loan, and to determine possible changes in the government's management of the project. The commission will be comprised of MEM, the Peruvian Finance

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The July12th hearing of the US SFRC examined the effectiveness of mutlilaterlal intestments in large infrastructure. Witnesses speaking on Camisea included Clay Lowry, Assistant Secretart for International Affairs for the US Treasury Department; Jaime Quijandria, Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay at the World Bank and ardent Camisea supporter; and

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The Dallas Morning News published an article by Jim Landers "Hunt Oil Making Big Play in Peru." The article gets some basic facts right about the project, but makes many blunders, too. A few inaccuracies:The article claims that NGO Amazon Watch "hired engineers who said the pipe steel and welds were defective." This refers to a study done by the NGO E-Tech International, that was not paid for by

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A Peruvian congressional committee issued a report yesterday evaluating the impacts of pipeline accidents. The report confirms that the project has contaminated the environmental in the neighboring indigenous communities. It also contains 17 recommendations, among them that the government renegotiate the contract for Block 88. The president of the commission, Carlos Armas, assigned

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Columnist Jim Landers of the Dallas Morning News writes from Pluspetrol's Malvinas camp to say that Alan Garcia's win in Peru's elections is "good news" for multinational petroleum companies." From the article: The oil companies argue that Camisea is clearly Peru's golden goose. And there is much more to come. Hunt Oil has the lead for the next big expansion from Camisea,

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Following up on a campaign promise, the Director Economy for President Elect Alan Garcia's Apra party, Enrique Cornejo, confirmed that the new government would renegotiate its contract with the Camisea consortium within 6 months of taking office. Reason given: increase in oil prices since the contract had been signed. Peru 21 article (Spanish).

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As of June 6, 2006, several communications have come from organizations working in the Lower Urubamba including the Machiguenga council, COMARU and the Escuela para el Desarrollo have reported evidence of some contaminant in the Camisea River that has been killing fish. The Community Monitoring Program (PMAC) has not yet issued a report. Pluspetrol has evidently denied that there has been any

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On July 13, 2006, Peru's MEM will announce the company or consortium that will carry out an independent audit of the Camisea Gas project. The government's audit will examine the design, construction, and materials used in the pipeline's construction and any risks to public security. The audit is being financed by the pipeline consortium, TGP, through an agreement with the Peruvian government.

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Chip Mitchell has a good article on the project in the Texas Observer. It describes problems with the pipeline and gives some background on Hunt Oil and its ties to the Bush campaign.“A project of this size can expect to have some challenges,” says Jeanne Phillips, the company’s senior vice president of corporate affairs and international relations, who chaired President Bush’s 2005 inaugural

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Summary of our trip for the Amazon Update (Amazon Alliance Newletter): From April 23-25, 2006 a delegation organized by Oxfam America and including the Wallace Global Fund, the US Catholic Bishops' Conference, World Wildlife Fund Peru, Escuela para el Desarrollo, the Consejo Machiguenga del Rio Urubamba (COMARU), the Central de Comunidades Nativas Machiguengas (CECONAMA) and Amazon Alliance

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In addition to the loan to Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP) in 2002, the IDB approved a $5 million loan to the Government of Peru for a program to strengthen government oversight of environmental and social issues related to Camisea. María Elena Foronda, President of Peru's National Environment Society (Sociedad Nacional del Ambiente) is calling on Peru's government accounting office to look

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"TGP makes it clear that it is absolutely false that we have used rusted materials in construction of the pipeline"Cartoon in La Republica

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El financiamiento del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) para el proyecto de exportación del gas natural licuado (LNG, por sus siglas en inglés) de Camisea estaría condicionado a los resultados de la auditoría a los ductos. Según informó el diario "Financial Times", el proyecto requiere US$400 millones del BID. El presidente de este organismo multilateral, Luis Alberto Moreno, recalcó que

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The IDB told the Financial Times that new IDB loans for the Camisea project would be dependent on the outcomes of environmental and technical audits. The project consortium is looking for $400 million in loans from the IDB for the second phase of the project to liquify natural gas. Luis Alberto Moreno, the IDB president, told the FT: “We are not even close to approving the loan. Without the

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According to OSINERG, Camisea Pipeline Consortium, TGP, will foot the bill for the technical audit of the pipeline, not the Peruvian government or the IDB. Alfredo Dammert, OSINERG president, said that money will be desposited in an OSINERG account and that TGP will have no influence over the audit. He said the selection of the auditing company will be carried out by the Ministry of Energy and

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The consulting NGO, E-Tech International issued a new report in response to TGP contesting its defense of the construction practices it used on the Camisea pipeline. The new report reiterates claims made in its February 27, 2006 report that the pipeline ruptures are likely due to construction deficiencies including poor welding, unqualified welders and inspectors who were trained in the field,

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A poll by Peru's Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI) Concerning the Free Trade Agreement with the US (66% of Peruvians feel it should be debated further in the next Congress) also asked about Peru's contract with the Consortia Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP). 54.1% thought that the existing contract should be revised compared to 28.8% who felt it should stand.El Comercio Article (in

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Del Boletin de la Alianza Amazonica, Noticias Amazonicas:El 4 de marzo, el gasoducto de Camisea en Perú presentó otra vez derrames, esta vez en el asentimiento indígena de Kepashiato. El gasoducto estaba transportando gas natural (líquido) y la explosión prendió fuego a un campo y a una casa, y dejó varias personas con quemaduras de segundo grado. Este último derrame es el quinto desastre que ha

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From the March, 2006 Amazon Update:(Espanol sigue)On March 4, Peru’s Camisea pipeline ruptured and spilled yet again, this time in the indigenous settlement of Kepashiato. The pipe was transporting liquid natural gas, and its explosion set a field and a home on fire, and left several people with 2nd degree burns. This most recent spill is the fifth pipeline disaster to occur in only 18 months of

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Peru Plans 350M in Oil InvestmentsLima, Mar 22 (Prensa Latina) Peru plans to award seven contracts in April, for a total 350 million dollars, for oil exploitation and exploration.Mines and Energy Minister Glodomiro Sanchez said one of these contracts is already functioning and the others are awaiting the signature of President Alejandro Toledo.The minister pointed out that four contracts will be

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OSINERG, the regulatory agency within Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) has released the terms of reference for the technical audit of the Camisea pipeline. Comments are being accepted.El Comercio reports today that within a month a company will be selected to carry out the audit. A technical group will be formed to choose the contractor which will be comprised of MEM, OSINERG (also

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The indigenous organization, AIDESEP, issued the following proclamation after the fifth Camisea spill. (English Translation).Declaration of the Interethnic Association on the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP)CAMISEA Project Demonstrates Lack of Planning: Attempt on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2006-03-08 Aware of the current situation facing our peoples, the Interethnic

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La República reports today about how Hunt Oil Company was able to get the Peruvian Congress to approve in only 8 hours its contract to build the Camisea Gas Liquification Plant in la pampa de Santa Melchorita, en Cañete and furthermore how it took Hunt only 40 days to sign a US$ 290 million investment contract with ProInversion, Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency. The ProInversion Board

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This is my first entry on this Blog tracking the Camisea Gas Project in Peru.Camisea is Peru's largest hydrocarbon project, an effort to pump and pipe 11 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from the Amazon to the Coast. It is also an extremely destructive project that has brought environmental devastation and disease to indigenous peoples in the Amazon, some of which have had little or no contact

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