Metalclad ends toxic waste disposal projects in Mexico

April 1999

Argentina

Region attracts projects to curb greenhouse gases

The projects are disparate—boosting the efficiency of a gas-fired power plant, trapping methane from landfills, building a hydroelectric dam, harnessing wind energy. Yet they have a ......

Costa Rica (Free Read)

First-of-a-kind treaty promises sea turtle protection

In the darkness, she has crawled from the water’s edge to where the shrubs meet the beach. She flicks sand aside with the two hind ......

Peru-Ecuador

Peace spawns plans for embattled border

Ecuador and Peru’s fledgling peace treaty has done more than end a half-century-long border dispute. The Global Peace Accord—signed last Oct. 26 by the countries’ ......

Brazil

Brazil scrambles to shore up parks, reserves

Brazil is moving to step up spending on national parks and biological reserves amid evidence the country’s protected lands are under serious strain. In a study ......

Argentina

Argentina to keep high-tech tabs on whales

Scientists studying southern right whales can always count on a front-row seat at Argentina’s Península Valdéz, which overlooks the aquatic breeding ground southern rights visit ......

Around the Region

Metalclad ends toxic waste disposal projects in Mexico

Metalclad Corp. has decided to discontinue its business in Mexico after failing twice to open much-needed toxic waste-disposal sites in the country. Mexico, which only has ......

Centerpiece

Now El Salvador's battle is environmental

The Río Lempa flows just a mile from Jorge Rodríguez’s small farm, but few cool breezes stir along its denuded banks to ease the afternoon ......

Q&A

Indigenous activist fills high-profile environment post

Since Hugo Chávez won election in December as president of Venezuela, there has been no end of speculation about the coup-plotter-turned-politician’s plans. Some of the ......

Metalclad ends toxic waste disposal projects in Mexico

Metalclad Corp. has decided to discontinue its business in Mexico after failing twice to open much-needed toxic waste-disposal sites in the country. Mexico, which only has one functioning disposal site for toxic industrial waste, wants investment in more such facilities. But since Metalclad entered the Mexican market in 1991, the Newport, California company has seen one of its projects denied a municipal permit and a second dogged by public opposition. In an annual report issued this month, Metalclad says it will retain a disposal site in the state of San Luis Potosí pending resolution of a $90-million damage claim it filed against Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 1997 claim, now before the International Centre for the Settlement of... [Log in to read more]

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April 1999

Argentina

Region attracts projects to curb greenhouse gases

The projects are disparate—boosting the efficiency of a gas-fired power plant, trapping methane from landfills, building a hydroelectric dam, harnessing wind energy. Yet they have a ......

Costa Rica (Free Read)

First-of-a-kind treaty promises sea turtle protection

In the darkness, she has crawled from the water’s edge to where the shrubs meet the beach. She flicks sand aside with the two hind ......

Peru-Ecuador

Peace spawns plans for embattled border

Ecuador and Peru’s fledgling peace treaty has done more than end a half-century-long border dispute. The Global Peace Accord—signed last Oct. 26 by the countries’ ......

Brazil

Brazil scrambles to shore up parks, reserves

Brazil is moving to step up spending on national parks and biological reserves amid evidence the country’s protected lands are under serious strain. In a study ......

Argentina

Argentina to keep high-tech tabs on whales

Scientists studying southern right whales can always count on a front-row seat at Argentina’s Península Valdéz, which overlooks the aquatic breeding ground southern rights visit ......

Around the Region

Metalclad ends toxic waste disposal projects in Mexico

Metalclad Corp. has decided to discontinue its business in Mexico after failing twice to open much-needed toxic waste-disposal sites in the country. Mexico, which only has ......

Centerpiece

Now El Salvador's battle is environmental

The Río Lempa flows just a mile from Jorge Rodríguez’s small farm, but few cool breezes stir along its denuded banks to ease the afternoon ......

Q&A

Indigenous activist fills high-profile environment post

Since Hugo Chávez won election in December as president of Venezuela, there has been no end of speculation about the coup-plotter-turned-politician’s plans. Some of the ......