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dam-l GREEN FACTION DENOUNCES RALCO APPROVAL
>SOURCE: EL MERCURIO
>SOURCE: LA TERCERA
> -- GREEN FACTION DENOUNCES RALCO APPROVAL. Deputy
>Alejandro Navarro, a member of the Chamber of Deputies "green
>faction," this weekend said the approval of Endesa's controversial
>dam project Ralco's Environmental Impact Study (EIS) was corrupt
>because it resulted from a pact between Endesa and the National
>Environmental Commission (Conama).
> Conama began its evaluation of the EIS in 1994, three years
>before the government had established any norms for the
>approval or rejection of this study. Navarro also said Endesa had
>hidden the approved EIS so that no other state ministry was able
>to see it before approval. Also, the National Energy Commission
>has ruled that this project is not economically viable.
> Ralco has currently been a big issue because Endesa
>executives say the bidding and construction will go forward as
>planned, while environmental and indigenous activists cite the
>Indigenous Law, saying that Endesa must receive 100 percent
>approval from Pehuenche families who need to be relocated due
>to the creation of a reservoir for the dam. National Indigenous
>Development Council (Conadi) says that there are at least two
>communities which still reject Endesa's relocation offer.
> Action Group for the Bio Bio (GABB) Director Juan Pablo
>Orrego said Endesa has continued a campaign of misinformation to
>"trick" the Pehuenche into bartering their land. GABB activists say
>they stay with these families to keep them from being persuaded
>to leave their sacred and productive lands. Endesa has denied
>putting any such pressure on Pehuenche families.
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