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Success! Preliminary Plans for Amazon Pipeline Cracked!

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Action Network from Environmental Defense. 
Finding the ways that work.
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On November 1, Environmental Defense sent an action
alert announcing Brazil's intention to build the proposed
Unco-Porto Velho gas pipeline in the Amazon. This pipeline
would destroy one of the best-preserved sections of
the Amazon rainforest and would devastate a completely
isolated, uncontacted indigenous group.

Nearly 1,900 of you took action, sending emails the
President of the Environmental Institute, IBAMA, in
Brazil demanding that they delay public hearings on
the Environmental Impact Analysis for the destructive
pipeline. 

SUCCESS!!! Thanks to pressure from you, other activists
and environmental organizations, the public hearings
have been cancelled. The public hearings were intended
to rubber stamp the project, without allowing environmentalists
and affected communities time to analyze and critique
the Environmental Impact Assessment. Steve Schwartzman,
Environmental Defense's expert working to protect the
Amazon and its peoples, reports that the cancellation
of the these public hearings allows local and national
groups to not only analyze the Environmental Impact
Analysis of the pipeline project, but to inform the
public about potential problems, and assess viable
alternatives to the pipeline. We at Environmental Defense
thank you for your efforts and encourage you to keep
up the good work!

Find out more about Environmental Defense's work to
protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people
by visiting us at:
http://actionnetwork.org/ct/_7aVAJ61uqDY/intl

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