Ray L Hunt, CEO
Hunt Oil Company
Fountain Place
1445 Ross at Field, Suite 1400
Dallas TX, 75202-2785

RE: Withdraw operations from the Nahua Kugapakori Reserve

Dear Mr. Hunt,

We very strongly urge Hunt Oil to permanently and completely withdraw all Camisea Gas Project operations from the Nahua Kugapakori Reserve, home to highly vulnerable indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation.

Currently 75 percent of the Project’s gas wells are located within the Reserve. The Project poses a terrible risk of spreading illness and death among peoples with no immunity to outsider’s diseases. When Shell Oil explored for gas in the region in the 1980’s, 50% of the uncontacted Nahua population died from diseases introduced by workers.

In full knowledge of the potentially fatal outcome, the consortium led by Hunt’s partner Pluspetrol has sent search parties into the Reserve to seek out uncontacted groups. Some communities are already suffering from new introduced diseases.

We support the demand of indigenous organizations in Peru that oil and gas development be halted and permanently removed within the territories of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation.

To avoid this tragedy in the making, Hunt Oil Company should take immediate steps to protect life and culture by withdrawing from this indigenous refuge. We will join millions of concerned citizens in the U.S. and around the world in closely monitoring your response to this life-or-death issue.