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Peru gas firm moves into indigenous people's reserve
2014-01-27 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peru's ministry of culture (Mincu) has given its approval for the expansion of the country's biggest gas project in a reserve for indigenous people and the buffer zone of the Manu national park. The expansion will involve drilling 18 wells, conducting seismic tests across hundreds of square kms, and building a 6.5 mile flowline in the supposedly protected Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve for indigenous people in "voluntary isolation" and "initial contact." Mincu's approval constitutes a dramatic...
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