Andean Group - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Major construction projects in the Amazon are bound to be controversial given the region’s environmental importance. Peruvian indigenous groups have recently showed that they are more ready than ever to defend their rights. After weeks of violent demonstrations against big mining and energy projects in the country’s south-eastern Puno department earlier this year, Peru’s outgoing president, Alan García, was forced to cancel a hydroelectric project in June. Peru’s mining and energy ministry had to issue a resolution stating that the temporary licenses and concessions, granted to a Brazilian consortium, Egasur, to develop the Inambari hydroelectric dam in Madre de Dios department, had expired and were thus cancelled.

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