by Rosemarie Quintal

Created on: June 04, 2009   Last Updated: June 08, 2009

The Peruvian Government suddenly declared 80% of the Amazon to be available for gas and oil drilling, despite the lives of 482 Indigenous people that live in the Amazon Region. A group of Indigenous Peruvians in response to the gas and oil mining permissions, has gone to Court in Peru as The Ethnic Association for Peruvian Jungle Development, seeking a ban on gas and oil development. See,

http://www.wri.org/stories/2007/10/protecting-peruvi an-amazon-and-its-people-risks-oil-and-gas-developme nt

Peru's Amazon rainforest is a Bio Gem of America's Natural Resources Defense Council, (NRDC). A Bio Gem is a wildlife place in the United States or in the World, named by this environmental law group, as a wild place endangered by destruction. Although the NRDC Bio Gem focus in Peru, Amazon South America concerns the strip logging forests of mahogany, See, http://www.savebiogems.org/amazon/,

The NRDC fought legally to stop the mining of Peru's oil resources. Preventing a hydroelectric plant in Patagonia Chile is also an NRDC Bio Gem Campaign to prevent river destruction, See, http://www.savebiogems.org/patagonia/

Ralph Nader essayed the destruction of South American eco-systems by American Gas and Oil Companies, in the book Pollution Current Controversies by James Haley (2001), raising the topic 'Should US environmental standards apply when multinational companies develop petroleum reserves of fragile ecosystems in Peru's Amazon Forest.'

Americans should be alarmed over warfare after reading about American Petroleum companies,' quasi-governmental takeover of the Amazon community. American companies police their own agreements; the police power anywhere is a local governmental power and function. For example, if acid rain corrodes oil and gas excavation pipes, the South American people that agreed to the excavation, must pay the damages. Nader observed that without any investigation of pipe corrosion, American oil companies insisted that acid rain caused pipe erosion, holding the people responsible for the environmental cleanup of toxic spill into their water sources, also taking over the judicial tribunal rights of the people living in the Amazon. People in Peru are at great risk when gas pipes break and oil burns, cancer, and other toxic chemical illness. Fires from pipes leaking are also destroying the Amazon environment contributing to water pollution.

Gases trapped in clouds emitted from gas and oil mining, are causes cited for acid rain. Acid rain is treated

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