Latin America Green News

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Thousands of dead shrimp and small fish have emerged from a duct of the Bocamina II plant, an Endesa-owned thermoelectric power generation […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center—a newly formed organization comprising researchers from several of the country’s universities—will begin a multidisciplinary study of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Supreme Court made a landmark decision rejecting the controversial 2100 MW Castilla coal-fired power plant, proposed by Brazilian businessman Eike […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile With 70 votes in favor, Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved the creation a Commission for Hydro Resources, Desertification and Drought this week to […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile While the two companies who own the proposed Hidroaysén dam project in Patagonia, Endesa and Colbún, hope to resume the project before the […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile Two months after opening a public tender to study nine alternative transmission line pathways in the Aysén region of Patagonia, the government announced this […]