Thursday, March 25, 2010

Planned oil pipeline in Peru may pose threat to Amazon tribes

Pipeline
The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company makes no mention of the tribes in its report detailing the potential social and environmental impacts of the pipeline, despite the fact they could be decimated by contact with Perenco’s workers.

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