Chilean Court Blocks Plan for Patagonia Dam Project

[cory777]

Source: New York Times

A Chilean appeals court on Monday suspended a plan to build five dams and hydroelectric plants in the country’s Patagonia region.

The court ruling came in response to actions filed by environmental groups and legislators arguing that the government commission that approved the $3.2 billion dam project last month had not taken into account a technical review.

The ruling temporarily halts the government’s approval process for the project, which set off large protests around the country in recent weeks.

Opponents applauded the ruling, hoping it was a step toward scuttling it altogether.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/americas/21chile.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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[Taverner]

1. Good. Let's hope they can keep it stopped.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. That photo is from Brazil IIRC. nt

[rabs]

3. Photo is from Santiago a few weeks ago.

Carabineros de Chile on back of riot police gear.

Banner is in Spanish, not Portuguese.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Photo was changed from the one last week with the

Single tribal chief sitting with his head in his hands and in tears.

[Judi Lynn]

6. I saw that one from Brazil, too. Very sad. Brazil is having a similar trauma to Chile's.

What a monstrous shame.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Those policemen are going to be hopping mad when they discover they're in Brazil,

when they thought they were in their own country all this time!

[Ex Lurker]

4. You know, I get really tired of seeing all these supposedly inferior countries

with better environmental protection, more equitable income distribution, lower rates of incarceration, etc. etc.

[Judi Lynn]

8. I share your disgust! We can thank our propaganda-slinging corporate media.

The only time they inform the public concerning Latin America is to let people know they're all "commies" and insinuate it's time the US barges in there and slaughters the people, and seizes even more natural resources, and enslaves even more poor people at even lower wages.

From what we knew as children growing up, nothing happened below our southern border other than people rioting in the streets and shouting "Yanqui, go home." In the meantime, US corporations and military have been running right over them, going back well over a hundred years, clearly, treating the indigenous, the poor like trash, making deals with the corruptible military leaders to overthrow any and all truly democratic Presidents who managed to get elected without getting murdered first.