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The Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline
The gas pipeline of this international project cuts across the Southern Pantanal for about 70 km. It is meant to carry natural gas from the deposits in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
As the Brazilian public agency Embrapa claims "the implementation of this pipeline may open some industrial perspectives for the region, but will also cause heavy alterations to Pantanal's ecosystem and more extensively to La Plata Basin", with significant long- and short-term impacts on the environment and the inhabitants.