Latin America Green News

Latin America Green News

Mary Mata March 7, 2013

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Persistent drought in Chile’s central region has caused water levels to drop in six major reservoirs used for power generation. According to the […]

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Mary Mata February 28, 2013

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Enersis, the owner of Endesa—the company that controls 51% of HidroAysén—believes that the mega-dam project will resume this year. Among the remaining roadblocks […]

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Mary Mata February 21, 2013

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Non-conventional renewable energy projects are aiming to add more than 6,000 MW of installed capacity to the SING, Chile’s northern electricity […]

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Mary Mata February 14, 2013

By Anamda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile: “Caring for our energy together” will be the slogan of Chile’s Energy Efficiency Expo AChEE 2013, which will be held in Santiago […]

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Mary Mata February 7, 2013

By Anamda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile 4.80 GW of non-conventional renewable energy projects were approved by Chile’s environmental impact system in 2012, more than four times the […]

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Mary Mata January 29, 2013

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Hundreds of people took to the streets in the town of Ventanas to march “For a Decent Life,” demanding that no […]

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Mary Mata January 24, 2013

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Chile’s Minister of Energy, Jorge Bunster, proposed a new tender system for renewable energy, which would competitively bid out renewable energy […]

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Mary Mata December 6, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Supreme Court ruled this week that the environmental approval for the Pirquenes coal plant in the Biobío Region was illegal, and that […]

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Mary Mata November 8, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Fifty half-dressed activists covered in blue paint greeted Senators on their way into the congressional building on Wednesday, advocating for the politicians not […]

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Mary Mata October 30, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Chile’s Energy Undersecretary, Sergio del Campo, announced that the government will begin studying the potential for building nuclear power plants again. The government had […]