Leaked e-mails between the leaders of Peru's Energy & Mines Ministry (MEM [5]) and Environment Ministry (MINAM [6]) reveal that Australia's Karoon Energy International [7] provided "technical support" in the proposed reform [8] of the Hydrocarbon Regulation that would eliminate requirement for an environmental impact study before oil exploration. In one e-mail. MEM chief Eleodoro Mayorga [9] was directly reproached by MINAM head Manuel Pulgar Vidal [10] for bringing Karoon into the process. This was among some 3,500 messages hacked by Anonymous Perú [11] from the account of ex-prime minister René Cornejo [12], dubbed by the press "Cornejoleaks." Karoon has operations at Bloc 238 in the northern coastal department of Tumbes. (La Republica [13], Panorama via Celendin Libre [14], Aug. 12; Peru21 [15], Aug. 11)
