Chilean Patagonia Sources

In a letter submitted yesterday to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, environmental group Probe International urged CEO David Denison to abandon a controversial hydro-transmission scheme in southern Chile’s Patagonia region.  read more »

Last August, HidroAysén submitted its Environmental Impact Assessment to the environmental authorities for its proposed hydroelectric dams in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. The EIA excluded the transmission component of the project, which would be developed by Transelec and includes a 1,500-mile long transmission line and related infrastructure crossing through 14 legally protected natural areas and thousands of private properties, around volcanoes, and over fjords spanning, in all, more than half of Chile’s entire length.  read more »

The “Patagonia Defense Council” (“Consejo de Defensa de  la Patagonia”  –  CDP),  a  diverse  coalition  of  58  organizations  from  Chile,  USA,  Canada, Spain and Italy, who have assumed the mission of defending the environmental integrity of Chilean Patagonia, writes David Denison (President and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - CPPIB) urging him to use his organization's authority as partial owner of Chile's power transmission provider, Transelec, to halt a mega hydroelectric project, called HidroAysén, and the associated transmissions lines, that threatens the environment of the region.  read more »