Argentina and Uruguay last month traded accusations over environmental monitoring of a massive Uruguayan pulp mill that started up in 2007 on the banks of the Uruguay River, a portion of which flows along their common border. The one-million-ton-per-year mill, now operated by the Finnish company UPM and originally built by Botnia, also of Finland, is subject to joint monitoring under an order issued in April 2010 by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Uruguayan and Argentine authorities for the past two months have been negotiating the release of monitoring information by the Uruguay River Administrative Commission (Caru), the binational entity tracking environmental impacts from the mill. Last month, the Argentine government accused Uruguay of “permanently obstructing” monitoring work... [Log in to read more]