Inter-American Development Bank founding the exploiting of Perus Amazonas.

Perus Camisea Natural gas project is running and this is arguably the most damaging project in the
Amazon Basin right now. And the plans to expand are wide. Located in the remote Lower Urubamba Basin in the south-eastern Peruvian Amazon, the $1.6 billion project includes two pipelines to the Peruvian coast, cutting thr...ough an Amazon biodiversity hotspot described by scientists as "the last place on earth" to drill for fossil fuels. 75% of the gas extraction are located inside a state reserve for indigenous peoples living in isolation.

Contractors for gasextraction companies have made contact with these isolated communities, pressuring them to abandon their ancestral lands. Several of these communities has since that suffered from outbreaks of infectious diseases, to a very alarming extent. These direct and indirect impacts on these isolated communities are devastating as the loss of fish and game population are very alarming.

The two pipelines has also ruptured five times, this is due to that the pipelines was constructed by unqualified and untrained welders using corroded piping and rushing to avoid late completion fees that would have totalled $90 million. The ruptures itself is offcourse very, very dangerous and alarming.

Now, this project would never work if it wasnt for the financiers offcourse, and I thought it might be of great importance for you to know, that the financers name is Inter-American Development Bank. This is a bank which is owned by 48 sovereign states, which are its shareholders and members. And you will probably find, when you look into it, that your state also is one of them. Many of the operations that the bank has supported has got massive critcism for the adverse impacts on local environments and indigenous peoples.

This is a a political policy that serves only the interests of the wealthy multinational companies, and will lead to the extermination of Perus indigenous people and increase the burden of poverty that the Peruvian people already suffer from. Maybe the tax-payers in these 48 states would like to know what they are spending their money on?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Development_Bank

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Adam Hochschild: Kung Leopolds vålnad.



Berättelsen om ett av de största folkmorden i modern tid.



Det är slutet av 1800-talet, den tid så Europas stater styckar upp Afrika mellan sig. Kung Leopold II av Belgien lägger för sin privata del beslag på det väldiga området runt Kongofloden. Den välkände upptäcksresanden Stanley är hans medsvurne. Enorma mängder gummi och elfenben skeppas från Kongo till Bryssel, folk och natur exploateras hänsynslöst och under tre decennier dör cirka tio miljoner människor i Kongo. Här uppenbaras den grymma verkligheten bakom Joseph Conrads roman Mörkrets hjärta.