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Environment/Nature | 25 September, 2009 [ 11:09 ]

Peru: Oil companies sued for Amazon exploration


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Isabel Guerra

Several indigenous people in Peru are suing Repsol-YPF and US company Hunt Oil over their plans to explore for oil on their land, according to a press release from NGO Survival.

Local indigenous organization FENAMAD has filed a lawsuit, claiming that local people were never consulted --as international laws require-- on this matter.

They say that oil exploration under this conditions would violate local peoples’ fundamental human rights to ‘enjoy a balanced environment’.

Hunt and Repsol-YPF own the rights to explore Lot 76, which includes land belonging to the Yine, Matsigenka and Harakmbut tribes.

The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, the source of six rivers that are the only fresh water supply for an estimated ten thousand people, is also in the area.

‘FENAMAD hopes that this legal action will paralyze any activity inside the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, as otherwise the very existence of Madre de Dios’ indigenous peoples would be put at risk,’ said FENAMAD spokesperson Jaime Corisepa.

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# Respolypf says :
25 September, 2009 [ 12:42 ]

Those Brits, do not remember that they slaughters millions of American Natives in the USA. They were Pirates in other words thieves, named Sires by the Queen. Drug dealers Opium war. Brits get out from Peru. 

# Luna says :
26 September, 2009 [ 14:03 ]

Is there anything we can do for these people?  Maybe to write a letter or something that can back them up in their protest.

It is a shame to live in a world where  people care more about money than human beings.  It is really sad to see the way some people ignore these human beings who live in the deepest part of our beloved jungle.  They do not realized that our beloved jungle has been their home forever and  whatever they do to our native people's home will have a positive or negative effect.

Paz y Amor en Nuestra Querida Tierra!!!

Luna    

# Bella says :
13 October, 2009 [ 09:31 ]

Yes there is Luna,
Here is the site where you can sign a petition.
Pass it on!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/98.php?cl_taf_sign=29a7f36193a62fb4cf22a5cfdc76af10

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