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Senators and reject HidroAysén UDI deputy. Member Only Pro supports the project

• The world works in reverse in Aysen

• Patrick Walker, Antonio Horvath and David Sandoval challenged the initiative because they believe that, if passed in its present condition, would mean more harm than good for area.
• In the path René Alinco opposite, the only parliamentary party Marco Enríquez-Ominami, who based his campaign on opposition to the dams in Patagonia, has expressed support for the idea to build 5 dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers.

Three of the four representatives of the Aysen Region in Congress have been defined in the last week about the project HidroAysén to reject the initiative is approved in the current conditions, on the verge of the Commission EA take a decision. RN Senators Patrick Antonio Horvath and DC Walker, plus the UDI deputy David Sandoval, have been questioned by various reasons the project, while the deputy PRO René Alinco has expressed support for the venture being carried out by Endesa and Colbun to build five Rep in the Baker and Pascua rivers.

Antonio Horvath long time expressed its disagreement with the approval of both HidroAysén as Southern Energy (the company that intends to build Xstrata Cuervo River Dam). Back in December said in a debate with Daniel Fernandez that " Aysén not need these large projects to develop. Vocations have to raise our quality of life and gravitate to national and international non HidroAysén without Endesa without Southern Energy ", one of the main questions that" transmission lines of over 2,000 km will cause irreversible injury to the Chilean Patagonia, not considered alternatives underwater, underground, or to avoid towns, tourist attractions, protected areas and the southern road "as noted in a letter to El Mercurio .

In a column published Monday in The Counter and El Divisadero, Patricio Walker made explicit rejection: "The conviction be defending the future and the interests of the region I have the honor to represent in the Senate, I express my stand against the approval of the mega projects for hydroelectric Aysen region. " His main reasons were the negative externalities that affect development strategies Aysén especially in tourism, lack of adequate compensation to take care of the damage that was not considered a permanent royalty for the use of water and the promise of cheap energy for the Aysen region currently is just that, a promise.

David Sandoval, who was mayor of Chile Chico, Cochrane, Coyhaique, regional media statements said "if you arrived build hydroelectric plants in Aysen what about the region?, because this resource is that the state and country values \u200b\u200bto the region in a different way. Today we are important because they need the energy that can occur in our rivers. But we will not use or a kilowatt of electricity generation that would produce these plants, go all the Central Interconnected System, from Tal Tal to Chiloe ", giving to understand his critique HidroAysén is approved under the current conditions.

Rene's situation Alinco is diametrically opposed. Since last year the PDP Daniel Fernandez took the company's executive vice president, his former colleague has had only words of support the construction of five dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers. " If you follow the current regulations, the construction of hydroelectric project would have to materialize HidroAysén" was his last statement, which added that " need to once and for all crystallizing Aysén go and if we can make a contribution through energy wealth is water, we have to, because the country needs energy, Aysen needs development and its people need work . "

His current position at odds not only with the PRO, the party which he joined in December 2010, and that of its chairman, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, who in his presidential campaign was a staunch opponent to the project - but also that the statements made himself the day before parliamentary elections in 2009 when he played for reelection: " Just as things are happening, and seeing that is not in compliance with applicable environmental regulations, my position is to be totally against the construction of dams in Aysen "adding that" I will not allow come to pollute our region as well . " And then towards the presidential runoff February 2010 on the proposed said that " need for an end to the irregularities that have undermined the legitimacy of our institutions and government, and affecting one or another way, the chances of our candidate Eduardo Frei to be the next President of Chile . " All before he became executive vice Fernandez company.

This confirms that in Aysen the world turns upside down: the only Member the only party with parliamentary representation has spoken out against HidroAysén supports the initiative, while the congress center and center-right blocks which have not addressed the question by the damage the inside wall which could lead to the region.