Concerned about the lack of available information on the projects...the South American Regional Committee of the World Conservation Union (UICN-Sur) [recently] convened an Electronic Forum on Civil Society Perspectives on IIRSA [Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America]...[The] forum...warned of the danger that the infrastructure projects might reinforce a development model based on the exploitation of natural resources, without contributing to solutions for poverty...Participants pointed out that the...infrastructure projects...could pose "a major environmental risk,"...A flagship project...[of IIRSA], is the Camisea gas pipeline in Peru [joint venture among Hunt, SK Corporation, Repsol, Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP), Pluspetrol, Techint, Sonatrach]...The project has come under severe criticism from environmentalists and the indigenous communities that have suffered its impacts. Indigenous people in Colombia and Venezuela are opposed to another IIRSA project, involving increased coal mining and the construction of two ports to export coal from the border region between the two countries. Another mega-project...is the Argentine-Paraguayan Yacyretá dam...which forced local residents to move their homes [and] had negative effects on the ecosystem...