It's a long way from energy town Houston, Texas to the dry
rainforests of eastern Bolivia. Yet the political heat generated by two
government investigations of failed U.S. energy trader Enron is blasting
through the Bolivian jungle just the same, like the 628-kilometer gas
pipeline Enron built here with taxpayer support. Critics charge that the
bankrupt former energy giant ran roughshod over the environment and the
rights of indigenous peoples when it built a pipeline from the Bolivian
city of Santa Cruz to the Cuiaba thermal power plant in Brazil's
Mato Grosso state. Indigenous groups are waiting for the collapsed
energy giant to deliver land promised them for cooperating with the
project.
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