A proposed South American mega-pipeline that would carry natural gas
southwards from the Caribbean Sea across the Amazon jungle to Brazil and
Argentina is still just a dream. But it has already given rise to doubts
regarding economic, political and environmental questions.
The project will consist of piping gas from deposits in the southern portion of
the Caribbean basin and from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Venezuela, to
the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) estuary between Argentina and Uruguay. The
route would be between 7,000 and 9,300 kilometres long, according to varying
estimates, and the pipeline would link up with gas lines in Bolivia, Chile,
Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
When presidents Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of
Brazil and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela announced the project last year, they said
it could cost around seven billion dollars. But estimates go as high as 25
billion dollars.
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