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Estado inerme ante desastre de Camisea

New spill intensifies battle over leaky pipeline

 

LIMA, (IPS) - La rotura el sábado de la tubería que transporta gas de Camisea, la quinta en 18 meses de explotación del yacimiento enclavado en la selva amazónica peruana, expone una vez más la debilidad del Estado para exigir a las compañías que cumplan con la ley.

Desde el primer derrame de gas líquido, el 22 de diciembre de 2003, debido a la rajadura de una tubería del gasoducto, hasta el cuarto incidente registrado el 24 de noviembre de 2005, el consorcio Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP) ha sido multado tres veces por los derrames. Pero la empresa rechazó todas las sanciones.
Fuentes del Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Energía (Osinerg), entidad encargada de fiscalizar que las compañías explotadoras de recursos energéticos respeten las normas internas y los estándares internacionales, dijeron a IPS que TGP "ha apelado todas las sanciones porque las considera injustificadas".

El consorcio está compuesto por la estadounidense Hunt Oil, las argentinas PlusPetrol y Techint, la estatal argelina Sonatrach, la sudcoreana SK Corporation y la belga-francesa Suez-Tractebel.
Techint fue encargada de la habilitación de los 731 kilómetros de tuberías para transportar gas líquido y natural desde los yacimientos en el sur hasta las costas occidentales sobre el océano Pacífico.

LIMA,(IPS) - An independent research group and the company building one of Latin America' most ambitious gas pipelines are butting heads over claims that the company used shoddy materials and unqualified staff for a Peruvian pipeline in one of the world's most richly bio-diverse areas.

The escalation of the dispute comes as the pipeline, which brings natural gas from Peru's southern Amazon region to the capital Lima, leaked natural gas liquids for the fifth time into the Amazon rainforest since its inception 18 months ago.

The controversy escalated last week when E-Tech International, a California-based non-profit technical research organisation, issued a report charging that the quality of materials and construction procedures used in the Camisea gas pipeline were substandard.

The report predicted further leaks and said that the shoddy work by the builder, Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP), a consortium that includes Argentina's Pluspetrol and Techint, Texas-based Hunt Oil, Algeria's state-controlled Sonatrach and South Korea's SK Corp, has led to the previous four ruptures in the pipeline.

Green and watchdog groups said the findings validated their fears that such massive projects are often detrimental to the environment and indigenous people in remote areas. They urged the project's main financial backer, the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to order a comprehensive review of the Camisea pipeline.
The spills have reportedly generated enormous resentment among indigenous people, some of whom have had little or no contact with the outside world before, and who rely on the jungle for their food, drinking water and medicine.

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