May 24, 2013
by Carolina Herrera
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Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
May 20 – 24, 2013
Chile
President Piñera… Continue reading
May 3, 2013
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
April 26-May 3, 2013
Chile
Executives from Barrick Gold&mda… Continue reading
March 1, 2013
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
February 22- March 1, 2013
Chile
Persistent drought in Chil… Continue reading
February 22, 2013
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
February 16-February 22, 2013
Chile
Enersis, the owner of E… Continue reading
October 26, 2012
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
October 21 – 26, 2012
Chile
Chile’s Energ… Continue reading
September 4, 2012
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
*Please Note: NRDC’s weekly Latin America news round-up will not be posted for the next two weeks, as our staff will be traveling. We will return on the week of Sept. 17-21. Thanks … Continue reading
June 29, 2012
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
This week, Chile signed agreements with China and South Korea that will help expand the country’s renewable energy portfolio. On Tuesday it was announced that the Chines… Continue reading
April 21, 2012
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
SunEdison, the fourth largest solar company in the world, plans to install photovoltaic solar plants in Chile’s Atacama region. SunEdison’s vice president for thei… Continue reading
December 9, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
HidroAysén made the proposed route for its 1,200 mile-long transmission line public this week, releasing the route to the media and initiating conversations with 20 of … Continue reading
October 28, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
Chile’s National Emergency Office of the Interior Ministry (ONEMI) has declared a red alert for seismic activity of the Hudson Volcano. The alert affects the areas … Continue reading
October 4, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
The government will audit all the infrastructure conditions of the Central Inter-connected Electrical System (SIC) so that it can calculate the total investment needed f… Continue reading
September 26, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
Minister of Energy Rodrigo Alvarez visited the southern Patagonia region of Aysén this week, where he signaled that the government would support clean energy pilot proj… Continue reading
August 19, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
The controversial Isla Riesco coal-mining project took another step forward last Friday when a high-level government commission gave final approval to the first of five mines,… Continue reading
August 5, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile
Chile’s legal procedural authority, the Contraloría, denied that the water rights HidroAysén received from the General Water Directorate earlier this year were legally gra… Continue reading
July 29, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Regional
The Inter-American Bank (IDB) will lend US$128 million to Brazil for the hydroelectric sector. The funds will be used to increase energy production, lower maintenance costs and… Continue reading
July 8, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile
In a unanimous vote on Wednesday, Chile’s Congress banned of shark finning. The practice, in which shark bodies are thrown back into the ocean after the fin is cut off, has been b… Continue reading
June 27, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News: Week of 6/19 – 6/26/2011
Chile
The Appellate Court in the city of Puerto Montt announced last Monday that it is halting all construct… Continue reading
June 10, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile
On June 4th the Puyehue Volcano erupted in an Andean volcano chain, prompting the evacuation of 3500 people from nearby villages. The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquakes, a… Continue reading
May 14, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile
On Monday, HidroAysén’s hydroelectric proposal in Patagonia was approved after a nearly three year review process. Immediately following the decision, protests broke out th… Continue reading
February 4, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Chile:
Alleged adulteration in the environmental impact assessments of the HidroAysén dam project surfaced this week. The regional branch of the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) had rejected the project but the Conaf headquarters chan… Continue reading