Chilean Patagonia
06/08/2010 This past Saturday, June 5, colleagues in Chile marked the annual International Day for the Environment (el Día Internacional del Medioambiente) with a nationwide day of action. This is the second time in less than a year that a nationwide action has been organized against the development of mega-hydroelectric projects in Patagonia. read more » |
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01/25/2010 With its glacier-carved peaks and fjords, southern Chile remains one of the wildest places on Earth. But that could soon change. read more » |
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07/29/2008 Residents in the Region X communities of Ralún and Cochamo – a sparsely populated rural area located some 60 kilometers directly east of Puerto Montt – are raising their voices against a massive transmission line Canadian-owned Transelec plans to run through their backyards. read more » |
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12/12/2009 Twenty-three hundred kilometres of transmission lines, to be built by Transelec Chile SA (investors include the CPP Investment Board, the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and Toronto conglomerate Brookfield Asset Management Inc.), would require the world's longest clear-cut up through the heart of Patagonia's untouched temperate forests. Environmental activists say it would be nothing less than a social and ecological disaster. Sixty-four communities and 14 protected areas would be directly affected. Tens of thousands of acres of valley, forest, and farmland would be flooded or razed. read more » |
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12/09/2009 A recent article in Pique highlights concerns about the involvement of the Canadian-owned company Transelec in a hydro electric project in Chile’s Patagonia region. The project, which plans to build five dams and 2,300 km of transmission lines with a parallel highway that would pass through 14 legally protected natural areas, has been criticized by environmentalists in the country and around the world, as well as business leaders. read more » |
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08/07/2008 In a recent story, Óscar Santelices, the director of Chile’s tourism bureau, SERNATUR, expressed concerns that the HidroAysén hydro electric project in Patagonia may hurt the region’s tourism business. He also said that he has expressed these concerns to the developers of the project. read more » |
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10/19/2009 A multi-million PR blitz by the owners of HidroAysen had little impact in making the project attractive to the region's 11 Senate candidates. read more » |
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07/02/2009 Long a source of serious environmental concerns, Chile’s controversial HidroAysén dam project is now being questioned along technical lines as well. Despite its billing as a “national priority,” critics say that from a basic supply and demand perspective, the multi-billion-dollar hydroelectric plan is simply unnecessary. In fact, Probe International made this very point in a June 17 letter to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. read more » |
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06/18/2009 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 » |
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06/21/2009 Probe International is calling on the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board to halt its investment in a controversial hydro transmission project in Chile’s Patagonia region. The CPP is currently listed as an investor in a 1,500-mile (2,400 kilometres) transmission project designed to handle power from five proposed hydroelectric dams in the Chilean Patagonia. read more » |
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