Mexico’s nuclear plant to undergo safety audit

July 2000

Brazil

Imported corn feeds Brazil’s biosafety debate

Disagreement over transgenic agriculture has intensified in Brazil following a government decision this month to authorize the importation of 38 metric tons of genetically modified ......

Mexico

Environmental advocates await Fox’s first move

The tea leaves were being read furiously in environmental circles here following Vicente Fox’s historic victory in Mexico’s July 2 presidential elections. And small wonder: Given ......

U.S.–Mexico (Free Read)

Suit seeks more water for Colorado delta

A coalition of U.S. and Mexican conservation groups has sued the U.S. government to free up water for endangered wildlife in the Colorado River delta ......

Chile

Complaint is a first for Canada-Chile pact

U.S. timber giant Boise Cascade’s plan for a major forestry project in Chile is facing a new challenge from Chilean environmental organizations. On June 27, lawyers ......

CEC

CEC leaders agree to consult citizen groups

Mexico, the United States and Canada have reached an agreement that has assuaged concerns—for now, at least—that they were planning secretly to curb the powers ......

Around the Region

Mexico’s nuclear plant to undergo safety audit

The Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has agreed to open the country’s sole nuclear power plant to an independent audit, a move environmental activists have ......

Centerpiece

U’wa image abroad not matched at home

Earlier this year, Colombia’s U’wa Indians issued an urgent communiqué to report that 5,000 soldiers had invaded their territory “at the service of Occidental [Petroleum].” “We ......

Q&A

Juan Mayr’s middle ground has seemed anything but

Before entering government, Colombian Environment Minister Juan Mayr spent two decades working to defend indigenous tribes and their environment in the Sierra Nevada de Santa ......

Mexico’s nuclear plant to undergo safety audit

The Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has agreed to open the country’s sole nuclear power plant to an independent audit, a move environmental activists have been demanding for years. Commission Director Alfredo Elías Ayub promised to solicit bids for the audit following reports that last November, an industry-backed international inspections unit found serious problems at the Laguna Verde plant in Veracruz state. (See “Temperature rises in nuclear-plant debate”—May ’00.) Inspectors from the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), which comprises representatives of 18 atomic power stations around the world, reportedly found irregularities in 63 of 72 areas of activity checked at the plant. Subsequently, the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the private Large and Associates, a nuclear consulting... [Log in to read more]

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July 2000

Brazil

Imported corn feeds Brazil’s biosafety debate

Disagreement over transgenic agriculture has intensified in Brazil following a government decision this month to authorize the importation of 38 metric tons of genetically modified ......

Mexico

Environmental advocates await Fox’s first move

The tea leaves were being read furiously in environmental circles here following Vicente Fox’s historic victory in Mexico’s July 2 presidential elections. And small wonder: Given ......

U.S.–Mexico (Free Read)

Suit seeks more water for Colorado delta

A coalition of U.S. and Mexican conservation groups has sued the U.S. government to free up water for endangered wildlife in the Colorado River delta ......

Chile

Complaint is a first for Canada-Chile pact

U.S. timber giant Boise Cascade’s plan for a major forestry project in Chile is facing a new challenge from Chilean environmental organizations. On June 27, lawyers ......

CEC

CEC leaders agree to consult citizen groups

Mexico, the United States and Canada have reached an agreement that has assuaged concerns—for now, at least—that they were planning secretly to curb the powers ......

Around the Region

Mexico’s nuclear plant to undergo safety audit

The Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has agreed to open the country’s sole nuclear power plant to an independent audit, a move environmental activists have ......

Centerpiece

U’wa image abroad not matched at home

Earlier this year, Colombia’s U’wa Indians issued an urgent communiqué to report that 5,000 soldiers had invaded their territory “at the service of Occidental [Petroleum].” “We ......

Q&A

Juan Mayr’s middle ground has seemed anything but

Before entering government, Colombian Environment Minister Juan Mayr spent two decades working to defend indigenous tribes and their environment in the Sierra Nevada de Santa ......