Latinnews Daily - 9 October 2003

A delegation from the Inter-American development bank (IDB) will send its first team down to Lima next Tuesday in order to check the progress of environmental safeguards in the controversial natural gas project Camisea. It will assess the progress of the LNG processing plant, to be built in Pisco, only eight kilometres from the Paracas Bay marine reserve (a sore point with environmental NGOs) and the construction of the two pipelines stretching from Cuenca del Ucayali, over 400km east of Lima, to Pisco, 200km south of the capital.

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