Note: You can read the entire update, as well as post a comment, here and here.

To take action, see Action Alert: Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the Amazon.

The following is excerpted from the action alert.

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From: GlenBarry [at] EcologicalInternet [dot] org
Date: Jun 4, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: RAINFOREST ALERT UPDATE: Criticism Grows Over Pipeline Which Will Devastate the Amazon

ALERT UPDATE

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RAINFOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY
Criticism Grows Over Pipeline Which Will Devastate the Amazon
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Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
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www.rainforestportal.org/news/ — Rainforest Newsfeed

TAKE ACTION:
Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the Amazon

www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline

June 4, 2006
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Rainforest Portal

Criticism Grows Over Pipeline Which Will Devastate the Amazon

Here is an important update on plans by Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina to build a massive natural gas pipeline through Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In March, the Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet took the lead in making this a global issue, as our network mobilized to campaign against this potentially 9,000 km long pipeline. The proposed project would pierce the heart of the Amazon – devastating rainforests, water resources, the climate and indigenous populations across a huge swathe of South America – and ensuring the destruction of the Amazon as a large, operable whole. The article indicates that opposition is growing and the pipeline’s prospects are fading. Let’s end this boondoggle now – please send now and forward widely the still current and urgent alert: Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the Amazon.

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