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"The severest HidroAysén is that (concrete) is irreversible" Residents of Aysén

• Ana Lya Uriarte, a former environment minister.

• In an interview given to CNN Chile this week former Secretary of State pointed out that this is because these dams are "not removable", challenging addition this project will be presented as "indispensable."

Despite intense lobbying HidroAysén, through its executive vice president Daniel Fernandez, is driving in Chile to enable their project of five dams in Patagonia's Baker and Pascua rivers, there are voices that question the sustainability such action.

One is the environment minister of the government of Michelle Bachelet, Ana Lya Uriarte, who in 2008 said that " environmental impact assessment (EIA) HidroAysén project has not lived up to the evaluation. The information provided is not sufficient at the time of making an environmental assessment of the magnitude of the project . "

This week former Secretary of State again raise the issue in an interview with CNN Chile. It said " the company has a structural problem with the HidroAysén project is that flood areas are an extension and a magnitude of such significance that is to say goodbye to a piece of land and irreversibly. " He added that "maybe that's more HidroAysén gravity. This does not fix it, because it will be removed after . "

Thus some sectors arise questioned the projected dams in Endesa and Chilean Patagonia Colbún are essential because " is a basic premise is for any authority who wants to legitimately represent the interests of citizens, and is that there is no draft of any order, which can be regarded as essential . " Otherwise " we saying that we necessarily approve and issued a decree that better and aprobémoslo without going through the System of Environmental Impact Assessment, which is the environmental review."

In this regard, he recalled that " public services during the administration of President Bachelet presented the draft 3600 observations. When he entered, having corrected the first 3,600, we made additional observations 1300. Public services were competitive work environment where Chilean citizens like you, like me, like those we are looking "concluded Ana Lya Uriarte.

HidroAysén The EIA was admitted in August 2008 and April 15 is scheduled to continue their investigation, after the company applied in November 2010 suspension of the assessment period to answer the third compilation of observations of bodies environmental competition.

View Ana Lya Uriarte interview on CNN Chile:

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Penies Into The Viginis

• noted Peter Hartmann, coordinator of the Citizens Coalition Aysen Life Reserve.
• aysenino leader said "there a dam there, affected by the earthquake, then nuclear is not only are they more dams and other facilities affected by earthquakes and tsunamis . "
• added that the options " are shown in other countries and are in the studies done by universities in Chile and Federico Santa Maria, Roman, Hall et al. And these are energy efficiency, net metering or cogereneración, savings and non-conventional renewable energies. Therein lies the solution, not on large projects that are clearly dangerous . "

" The dilemma is clearly not nuclear versus dams, that is a false choice. The choice is mega projects versus other solutions. And there are other solutions ". The coordinator of the Citizens Coalition for Aysen Life Reserve, Peter Hartmann, responded well to the calculation made by some analysts in the sense that the questioning of nuclear electricity benefit plans of large dams in Patagonia being carried out by Endesa and Colbun to through HidroAysén and Xstrata by Southern Energy.

In this regard, he recalled that the nuclear emergency has focused attention, which the executives of large hydropower as HidroAysén and Southern Energy have tried to capitalize on their behalf, but little has been informed of the breakage of the dam during the recent earthquake Fukushima Japan. " There is a dam there, affected by the earthquake, then not only are they more nuclear dams and other facilities affected by earthquakes and tsunamis " he said.

said that truly sustainable solutions " are shown in other countries and are in the studies done by universities in Chile and Federico Santa Maria, Roman, Hall et al. And these are energy efficiency, net metering and cogeneration, renewable energy saving and unconventional. Therein lies the solution, not on large projects that are clearly dangerous . " Complementing

said the Crow River reservoir dam Southern Energy, as reported Sernageomin, is projected on the active fault-Ofqui Liquiñe (cause of Puerto Aysen earthquake in 2007), which power lines pass intended HidroAysén a few kilometers from the Chaitén volcano that erupted in 2008 and that the central 2 HidroAysén Baker is to be installed downstream of the area of \u200b\u200brecurrent dissections of Lake Cachet 2, which began in 2008 and whose last event was in early March this year, with millions cubic meters running toward the Pacific Ocean and end in Caleta Tortel.

" The underlying problem is not just nuclear power, is trying to develop energy projects that involve an unmanageable level of intervention in emergency circumstances such as have occurred in recent times, and that's come all kinds of mega projects HidroAysén eg, Castilla or any nuclear energy on a large scale is always "said the leader. " Slide in the media following a nuclear emergency in Japan the only non-polluting alternative to Chile would be the major hydropower dams is refusing to learn the lessons from this disaster leaves "he said.

View information on dam break:

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