Sunday, February 17, 2013

Peru: Gas giant backtracks on exploration in UNESCO World Heritage Site

Survival International: The Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeast Peru into one of the most biodiverse places on earth, following a shock exposure this week by The Guardian newspaper and Survival International. The company has released a statement in which it admitted planning what it described as 'superficial geological studies… for scientific interest,` in Manu National Park, but promising that it had now abandoned these plans. The...

URL: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/8983

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