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March 25, 2009
Environmentalists warn Alto Maipo project consequences of Aes Gener

Environmentalists warn Alto Maipo project consequences of Aes Gener The organizations said that the initiative to be voted on Thursday in the metropolitan Corema "means a mega-intervention in the Maipo river basin that irreversibly alter water system to generate a maximum of 190 Mega Watt average per year and not 530 as the company has sought to assert. "

A group of environmental organizations warned on Wednesday the risks that would lead to approval on Thursday by the Metropolitan Corema, Alto Maipo hydro project of Aes Gener.

Through a public statement said that this initiative will mean a mega-intervention in the Maipo river basin, which irreversibly alter water system to generate a maximum of 190 Mega Watt average per year and not 530 as the company has sought to assert. "

This, they explained, because" believes trasvasijar water from the basin of the rivers Plaster Volcano, Colorado and Maipo through 70 miles of tunnels, leaving dry, ecological flow misnamed - miserable, the northern basin of the rivers Volcano, Plaster and Colorado and drastically reducing the flow of the Maipo River.

The signatories claim that "the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the proposed Alto Maipo has been plagued by irregularities, including the surprising change of position for deciding key services (especially the DGA, the DOH, CONAF SAG and Seremi of Agriculture), which in principle had been expressed against the proposal. This despite the fact that the company did not make substantial changes to the original project. "

also reported that to the extent that the voting has approached," environmental leaders of our country have been severely attacked by the media eroding the legitimate and necessary defense of the Maipo river basin. Aes Gener This attempt to change the focus of public opinion without giving a clear answer concerning the environmental, social and economic problems that have their project for the RM.
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organizations "wish to express our fervent rejection of the act of political and technical ombudsmen on the one hand allow unpresentable negotiations between the community and the company, alongside the environmental qualification process, and otherwise facilitate the technical approval of this project, breaking the law manifestly, as they have in other cases. "

entities that signed the statement are Chile Environment, Sustainable Chile, the Codeff Aisen Codesa, the Citizens' Coalition Aysen Life Reserve, Ecosystems, FIMA, the Terram Foundation, Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Foundation Yendegaia, Patagonia Conservation Foundation and the Institute of Ecology Policy.