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"Much of the community of Tortel believe that this project will be very harmful if you get to realize"

• Mayor Bernardo Lopez to submit comments to the EIA HidroAysén.

Tortel Mayor, to submit their comments municipality environmental impact assessment (EIA) of HidroAysén, said that " much Tortel community, who have been born in this land, we believe this project will be very harmful if they come to realize, in the cultural item, in environmental issues, the impact will be tremendous . "

The mayor, who came to Coyhai which to present the document to the Environmental Assessment Service, reaffirmed that " is a bad project for region. " In this regard, he recalled the initiatives of this type have been developed in other districts of the country, such as the Alto Bío Bío, " where today there is great poverty, the progress that was promised at that time never came, and still has not arrived, and it will not come either because companies have already pulled out of there and we do not want the same thing happening to our people of Patagonia . "

Comments The document, which reflects the main findings, we question the impact on the sector where the Baker River Salton intends to build HidroAysén the central wall of the Baker 2, noting that " if affects tourism product of the loss of a specific attractive no compensation can be designated as the repair of landscape or conservation area that is intended to offset other impacts " . It adds that " improve a circuit that would lose their main appeal is for a mitigation measure rather than compensation, mitigation refers to mitigate the effects, compensation to compensate for irreparable damage, as that would cause the loss bounding the Baker River. Thus, the owner is requested to supplement the measures specific compensation for the loss of tourist attractions, which are complementary to mitigation measures. "

Another point concerns the extraction of gravel, which the company calls " comply with the request made repeatedly by the DGA, which until now has not been considered to define the path of the river 100 years considering return. This is of particular importance for proper risk assessment product GLOF events and other large floods, which could be increased if flooded areas aggregate extraction. "

also spoken bonding company with the people directly affected who live in the district, to avoid an unequal relationship between the parties.

On Monday April 25th is the deadline to have the utilities to submit comments, after which it is most likely to develop the Consolidated Evaluation Report, on which the Environmental Assessment Committee should vote before 16 May its approval or rejection of the EIA.