May 3, 2006
Update

By Kelly Hearn
26 Apr 2006

The boat ride down southeastern Peru's Urubamba River cuts through mountains and sweltering jungle, passing wooden shacks of colonos -- mixed race and grindingly poor Peruvians lured to the jungle with promises of free land -- and nativos, tribes recently brought into contact with the modern world. The area is a biological gold mine, home to  ...  (more)

Dec 14, 2005
Update

A Hunt Oil consortium has come under review by the Peruvian government following a series of gas spills, an environmental and human rights group said Thursday.

There have been four major spills from the Camisea pipeline in the past 15 months, prompting an emergency review by a joint commission from Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines and the country's energy regulator, said Amazon Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based organization.

The latest spill on Nov. 24 dumped about 6,000  ...  (more)

Sep 8, 2004
Update
Source: Bloomberg
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news

Hunt-Led Group Begins Moving Gas From Peru's Camisea Pipeline

Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A Hunt Oil Co.-led group is set to begin pumping
natural gas from the .6 billion Camisea field in Peru's Amazon rain
forest, the culmination of a 20-year project that was delayed by
guerrilla warfare and political opposition.

Dallas-based Hunt Oil, together with  ...  (more)

Aug 20, 2004
Update
Hunt-Led Group Begins Moving Gas From Peru's Camisea Pipeline

Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A Hunt Oil Co.-led group is set to begin pumping natural gas from the .6 billion Camisea field in Peru's Amazon rain forest, the culmination of a 20-year project that was delayed by guerrilla warfare and political opposition.

Dallas-based Hunt Oil, together with partners from Argentina, South Korea and Algeria, today will  ...  (more)

Jun 1, 2004
Update
Source: Reuters
Posted on Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/

Regional Strike Could Delay Camisea Gas in Lima-TGP
Reuters

By Robin Emmott

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Plans for gas from Peru's giant Camisea field to arrive in Lima on Aug. 9 could be delayed by protesters who say the project is causing massive deforestation of pristine Amazon rain forests, the energy consortium transporting the gas said  ...  (more)

Sep 12, 2003
Update

Although the United States representative abstained, the directors of the Inter?American Development Bank voted to approve a 5 million financing package for the Camisea Gas Pipeline.

Sep 12, 2003
Update

Many thanks to everyone who sent last-minute messages to the directors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Our letters and phone calls had an impact - enough to force the United States director to abstain, but not enough to block financing for this project, which is wreaking destruction in the Peruvian rainforests and indigenous communities. See the news reports below.

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post

With  ...  (more)

Sep 4, 2003
Followup Action

On the heels of our victory last week when the U.S. Export-Import Bank voted down funding for the Camisea Gas Pipeline project, our next target is the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Please write or phone the president of IDB and urge him to reject financing for this destructive project. Thanks to Institute for Policy Studies for circulating this action alert:

URGENT: ACTION ALERT!
Last week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank rejected support for the Camisea  ...  (more)

Sep 4, 2003
Followup Action

On the heels of our victory last week when the U.S. Export-Import Bank voted down funding for the Camisea Gas Pipeline project, our next target is the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Please write or phone the president of IDB and urge him to reject financing for this destructive project. Thanks to Institute for Policy Studies for circulating this action alert:

URGENT: ACTION ALERT!

Last week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank rejected support for the Camisea gas  ...  (more)

Aug 28, 2003
Victory!

Our letters to the U.S. Export-Import Bank helped persuade the bank's directors to reject the Camisea project in August 2003 - in spite of the Bush administration's close ties to some of the companies that would have benefited.

In a victory letter, our international coalition partners (Amazon Watch, Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth and Oxfam America) wrote: “This is a significant victory and one that was without a doubt accomplished with the help of  ...  (more)

Aug 28, 2003
Update

Thanks to Janet Lloyd for this translation (below) of a statement by indigenous peoples’ federations and coalitions, regarding the Camisea Gas Pipeline project in Peru. Please send a message today to the chairman of Hunt Oil (see the alert we circulated yesterday, or www.amazonwatch.org ).

COICA - AIDESEP - COPPIP - CONACAMI - COMARU - ARPI

Declaration by Indigenous Peoples in Defense of Life, Territory and the Environment

THE CAMISEA  ...  (more)

Aug 27, 2003
Followup Action

As you know (and thanks to your letters and phone calls), the U.S. Export-Import Bank and International Development Bank have suspended consideration of funding for the Camisea Gas Pipeline project in the Peruvian Amazon. Now we need to urge US-based Hunt Oil to withdraw from the Camisea project. Hunt and its consortium partners are currently drilling platforms on land of uncontacted and isolated indigenous peoples in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.

For background  ...  (more)

Aug 14, 2003
Update

The Inter-American Development Bank and the United States Export—Import Bank announced they would drop the Camisea Gas Pipeline project from their funding agendas “indefinitely.”

The coalition to stop Camisea wrote, “Global Response was instrumental in raising public awareness and mobilizing international action at critical points throughout the campaign…. Although our struggle is not over, this is certainly a significant victory and one  ...  (more)

Aug 14, 2003
Update

Take some credit and well-deserved thanks from the coalition of organizations working to stop construction of the Camisea Gas Pipeline in Peru. Here's a "thank you" from the main campaign organizers. Thanks from the staff and board of Global Response, too. We all take heart in this (temporary, perhaps, but very significant) victory. Let it inspire and motivate us, knowing that our letters CAN convince decision makers to make environmentally sound decisions.  ...  (more)

Aug 6, 2003
Victory!

Congratulations! Your faxes, letters and emails over the past 9 months - and especially during the last 3 weeks - paid off!

Yesterday, the Inter-American Development Bank and the U.S. Export-Import Bank both dropped the Camisea Gas Pipeline project from their agendas. For background information on this campaign, please read Global Response's action alert at http://www.globalresponse.org/gra.php?i=6/02.

Here's a press release on yesterday's decision:

 ...  (more)

Aug 1, 2003
Update

Your faxes, emails and phone calls this week convinced the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to postpone its crucial vote on funding for the Camisea Gas Project in Peru. Due to the overwhelming outpouring of public opposition to this project from around the globe, the Executive Directors of the IDB decided yesterday to postpone the vote for one week, until August 6. On that date they will decide whether to approve million in direct funding and an additional 0 million in indirect  ...  (more)

Aug 1, 2003
Update

Your faxes, emails and phone calls this week convinced the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to postpone its crucial vote on funding for the Camisea Gas Project in Peru. Due to the overwhelming outpouring of public opposition to this project from around the globe, the Executive Directors of the IDB decided yesterday to postpone the vote for one week, until August 6. On that date they will decide whether to approve million in direct funding and an additional 0 million in  ...  (more)

Jul 28, 2003
Followup Action

Please help in this week’s big push to stop financing for the Camisea Gas Pipeline project in Peru. The Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, is scheduled to vote Wednesday . Please fax or phone your IDB representative (given below), and urge them to POSTPONE the vote until the Bank has been able to assess all the potential environmental and social impacts of the Camisea project.

Following the Action Alert is an article from today’s Washington Post.

ACTION  ...  (more)

Jul 23, 2003
Followup Action

At the end of last year, Global Response initiated a letter-writing campaign on behalf of indigenous communities who oppose construction of the Camisea a gas pipeline through the Amazonian rainforest and over the Andes to the coast of Peru. We wrote letters to the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, urging them to withhold financing for this very destructive project (please see our action alert at  ...  (more)

Jul 20, 2003
Followup Action

Letters to Inter-American Development Bank, urging them to reject applications for financing the Camisea project, on environmental and human rights grounds.

Requested by Oxfam America.