Angel Paez

LIMA, Jul 17 (IPS) - Phase II of Peru's controversial Camisea gas project has once again run up against opposition from the U.S. government and Senate, which may vote against approving additional Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funding.

Wednesday's U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee public hearing, under Senator Richard Lugar, boded ill for the megaproject's second-phase investors.

Testifying before the Committee, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Clay Lowery criticised the project's negative impacts on the Peruvian Amazon environment and indigenous communities.

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Posted by rjorr at July 18, 2006 9:47 AM