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Written by Steve Anderson
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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Timid effort to promote ecotourism impacts less than one percent of water basins in southern Chile and could be recinded by incoming Piñera government
The Ministry of Public Works (MOP) this week denied 30 petitions for water rights made by electric companies in three rivers in Region X and XI: the Palena River, the Murta River and the Cisnes River.
Government officials said their aim was to keep power companies from buying the water rights to the rivers and building hydroelectric dam projects. Instead, the idea is to promote ecoturism by preserving these river basins. |
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Written by Bernd Heinrich
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Well-intentioned environmentalists need to know the difference
By Bernd Heinrich
(Ed. Note: Southern Chile is home to one of the world’s few temperate rain forests.
(Monday’s lead story in The Santiago Times (“The Alerce Case”) touched on an illegal, systematized effort to burn and loot some of these forests and the government’s failure take appropriate protective measures.
(The article below takes a more profound look at why native forests are important in the effort to fight global warming and why they must be distinguished tree plantations. The essay is written by Bernd Heinrich, emeritus professor at the University of Vermont and author of the forthcoming “Nesting Season.”) |
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Written by James Fowler
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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As violence continues in Mapuche territory
Acting Interior Minister Patricio Rosende on Monday vowed to prosecute those responsible for the recent fires in the southern Chile’s Region IX “to the full extent of the law.”
A rural school was set alight by arsonists early Monday morning and police believe the same arsonists started a second fire on private land moments later to cover their escape.
Witnesses heard shots before discovering a granary owned by local farmer Julio Molina ablaze. Damage to the granary is estimated atUS$50,000.
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Written by Laura Burgoine
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Two university students are recovering after being attacked by five assailants while traveling in southern Chile.
Civil engineering students Sebastian Herceg Ruiz, Andres Egana and Tomas Frias were attacked while walking home from a party in Villa Cerro Castillo, a small town 110km south of Coyhaique (Region XI).
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Written by Steve Anderson
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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Ruling prompted by illegal trading of Alerce timber puts an end to secrecy in granting or changing of land titles
Thanks to a little heralded but very important ruling last week by Chile’s Transparency Council (CPLT), the process by which an individual gets or changes legal title to a piece of property will be completely opened up for public scrutiny.
The new ruling was the result of a July, 2009, lawsuit filed before the CPLT by environmental attorney Miguel Fredes, who charged that the State violated Chile’s newly passed Transparency Law (20.285) in the way it carried out its land title operations.
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Written by MERCOPRESS
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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But unemployment in far southern Chile much less an issue
Unemployment in Chile the last quarter of 2009 was 8.6 percent, down from 9.1 percent in the previous quarter, and up 1.1 percentage points from a year ago, the National Statistics Office (INE) reported last week.
INE said that during 2009 employment in Chile was down 0.7 percentage points averaging 9.7 percent, compared to 7.8 percent in 2008.
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