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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><b>Action Alert — October
16, 2007</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt;"><font face="arial" size="3"><b>How <u>NOT</u>
to solve global warming: NAFTA for the Amazon!</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt;"><font face="arial" size="2"><a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Fzh4tO8IjgvOYDIisDbJwNYFE99NMTVZ"
target="_blank"><b>Take action to save the Amazon!</b></a> Democratic
leadership has promised to bring Big Oil's dream trade deal - the Peru
NAFTA expansion - up for a vote by the end of October. We've got to
stop them.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Dear Supporter,</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">When Big Oil companies are
going full steam on a stealth lobbying mission for more access to the
Amazon, it doesn't take a geological engineering degree to realize that
whatever they are pushing is probably bad for the environment.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">So, it's more than a little
disturbing that Democrats in Congress are scheduling a vote on one of
Big Oil's top legislative priorities - an expansion of NAFTA to the
South American country of Peru that would give them powerful new rights
to ravage the endangered Amazon rainforest.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Indigenous leaders from the
Peruvian Amazon are in Washington, DC right now urging the U.S.
Congress to save their Amazon rainforest home and help stop global
warming by defeating the Bush administration's proposed NAFTA
expansion.[1] But they need our help!</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><b>Please urge your
representatives in Congress to save the Amazon from Big Oil's Peru
NAFTA scheme - and vote NO on HR 3688, the Peru "free trade" agreement
(Peru FTA).</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Take action here: <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=o7HLLqUSlq26vShL6Tu8fyND2j1hwnvX"
target="_blank"><b>http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17124</b></a></font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Bush's NAFTA expansion to
Peru, which would extend NAFTA's most environment-ravaging provisions
to cover the upper Amazon basin, is at the top of the agenda for
multinational oil companies like Chevron-Texaco, a co-chair of the
U.S.-Peru Trade Coalition.[2]</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">The Peru deal includes new
rights for Big Oil that extend even beyond NAFTA's awful provisions.
The proposed pact would empower multinational oil and gas to drag
Peru's government to World Bank tribunals to demand compensation for
changes to the corporations' exploration and exploitation contracts
that could undermine their "expected future profits." What this means
is that the Peru FTA would allow these firms to crush measures Peru's
government might take to protect the Amazon rainforest.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Big Oil is well aware of
this hidden provision in the Peru FTA. In fact, they call it a
"significant improvement" over other trade deals in an official report
for Bush's energy industry corporate advisory committee on trade.[3]</font></p>
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<p><b>Locking in Oil Company Leases:</b> When
negotiations on the trade deal started back in 2004, only 13 percent of
Peru's Amazon was zoned for oil and gas exploration and exploitation.
The last two governments have now opened over 65 percent of the region,
including national parks and other ostensibly protected areas. The
FTA's new foreign investor protections would help lock in this outrage,
even if a new pro-environment government were elected in Peru -
granting Big Oil the world's most important rainforest as its private
Monopoly board game.</p>
<p>Multinational oil companies involved in Peru
include <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3g3XZfGCVo1ai7C79WqaNdYFE99NMTVZ"
target="_blank"><b>Occidental</b></a> and <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=55lAW%2FeEx1C6vShL6Tu8fyND2j1hwnvX"
target="_blank"><b>ConocoPhillips</b></a>, whose political action
committees have been layering the campaign donations on to the same
members of the U.S. Congress who will be voting on the deal.</p>
<p>Click the image for a larger version:<br>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">In a <a
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target="_blank"><b>recent letter</b></a> to the U.S. Congress,
environmental groups that work on protecting the Amazon rainforest
wrote:</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><i>Given the challenges that
the world faces to stem global warming, we simply cannot afford to
advance trade agreements that we are certain will result in the
deforestation of critical tropical rainforests.</i></font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">In short, Big Oil's Peru
NAFTA push will help heat up the planet and reduce our energy
independence.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">The Peru FTA is slated for a
vote before the end of October, so we need to move fast. Please act now
to make sure your Representative and both of your Senators know where
you stand!</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Take action here: <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5iS5byzSYzCFCDbeeVK4G9YFE99NMTVZ"
target="_blank"><b>http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17124</b></a></font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">And please, please send this
email to all of your friends. If we want to make progress on climate
change, we can't let the new Congress cave in to Big Oil by passing
trade agreements that help lock in the very policies we know must be
changed.</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">Thank you for all that you
do,</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2">David Edeli<br>
Global Trade Watch Division<br>
Public Citizen</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><font size="1">[1] <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ITsQ3k1kKdKSNdNjzmm0WtYFE99NMTVZ">"Los
pueblos indigenas no quieren el TLC,"</a> <i>La Republica</i>, October
11, 2007, <i>Seccion Economia</i>, p.14.<br>
[2] See the <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3tPhUdRc2%2B4W%2BYHijFDKztYFE99NMTVZ"
target="_blank">Latin America Trade Coalition website</a>.<br>
[3] <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qpVLPdo9gI7OYDIisDbJwNYFE99NMTVZ">"The
U.S. - Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA),"</a> Report of the Industry
Trade Advisory Committee on Energy and Energy Services (ITAC 6),
January 2006. (PDF)</font></font></p>
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