Legal Fight Against Gas Drilling Plans in the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve
Hydrocarbon concessions in Peru Peru’s Garcia administration, from 2006 to 2011, concessioned over 80% of Peru´s Amazon Rainforest for hydrocarbon exploitation. Ollanta Humala, Peru’s new president as off 2011, has decided to continue the previous government’s politics as far as oil and mining is concerned. Humala does say he will give more emphasis to social […]
Third E-Tech Forum “Best Practices, Standards, and Technologies for Hydrocarbon Activities in the Peruvian Amazon”
Since 2009, Pantiacolla has been accompanying the indigenous Harakmbut Indians against the plans of the United States’ Hunt Oil Company. This company is planning to extract oil or gas from the Amazon Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, just east of the Manu National Park, using methods that are inadequate to guarantee the forest’s ecological balance needed for […]
