Following three months of public demonstrations against plans for construction of a new nuclear power plant, Alberto Weretilneck, governor of the southern Argentine province of Río Negro, announced he was withdrawing his government’s approval of the project. “The project not only drew the expected opposition from environmental organizations, but also from thousands of Ríonegrinos, fundamentally young people,” Weretilneck wrote in an Aug. 25 open letter to Argentine Energy Minister Juan José Aranguren. The Río Negro project was one of two planned nuclear power station announced in May by Argentine President Mauricio Macri during a visit to China, which had agreed to finance 85%, or US$14 billion, of the cost of the two plants. The second project is scheduled for groundbreaking next year in the... [Log in to read more]