Debate rages in Argentina over plan for open-pit mine

March 2003

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Around the Region

Debate rages in Argentina over plan for open-pit mine

The Argentine mountain resort community of Esquel observed its 97th anniversary last month, but the celebrations turned into a showdown over plans for an open-pit ......

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Black-Arbeláez sees regional gains in carbon market

Thomas Black-Arbeláez is executive director of the Andean Center for the Economy in the Environment, a think tank in Bogotá, Colombia. The privately funded center ......

Debate rages in Argentina over plan for open-pit mine

The Argentine mountain resort community of Esquel observed its 97th anniversary last month, but the celebrations turned into a showdown over plans for an open-pit gold mine just 4.3 miles (7 kms) from the city center. Residents jeered Governor José Luís Lizurume of Chubut province, where Esquel is located, as he attempted to preside over the main anniversary event on Feb. 26. Then supporters of the project weighed in, prompting an estimated 100 police officers to intervene. At issue are plans by the Canadian company Meridian Gold to mine gold in one of the most important tourism centers in Argentine Patagonia. Key local, state and federal officials favor the project, viewing it as a sorely needed source of jobs and investment amid the nation’s... [Log in to read more]

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March 2003

Mexico

Mexico-based power producers feeling the heat

As power-generation projects have multiplied in northern Mexico, they’ve raised a touchy question: Will the new plants be equipped with cutting-edge pollution controls? Until recently, the ......

Brazil (Free Read)

Brazil now a leader in whale-preservation efforts

In the three decades it took for this coastal outpost to earn a reputation as one of the world’s prime surfing destinations, Brazil performed a ......

Colombia

Colombian aerial-spraying debate heats up

First came the U.S. State Department’s announcement last month that Colombia’s coca production fell 15% in 2002, the first decline in a decade for a ......

Chile

Delay in decision on aluminum mega-project

Chile’s National Environmental Commission (Conama) has granted Noranda, the Toronto-based metals and mining company, until November to answer questions about its plans to build one ......

Brazil

Lula scrambles to deal with transgenic soy

In theory, commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops is prohibited in Brazil pending litigation of the matter in the country’s courts. But in practice, transgenics ......

Around the Region

Debate rages in Argentina over plan for open-pit mine

The Argentine mountain resort community of Esquel observed its 97th anniversary last month, but the celebrations turned into a showdown over plans for an open-pit ......

Centerpiece

Latin America well-positioned for CDM

The coastal desert of Colombia’s La Guajira state is a world away from Kyoto, the temperate Japanese city where representatives of 159 countries in 1997 ......

Q&A

Black-Arbeláez sees regional gains in carbon market

Thomas Black-Arbeláez is executive director of the Andean Center for the Economy in the Environment, a think tank in Bogotá, Colombia. The privately funded center ......