Gold-mining project roils tourist community

January 2003

Trade

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Argentina

Gold-mining project roils tourist community

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Peru

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Gold-mining project roils tourist community

Argentina

Coverage of Esquel, a picturesque corner of Argentine Patagonia, usually is confined to the tourism pages. But these days, the Andean vacation community finds itself the subject of a front-page national debate about a proposal for open-pit gold mining just 4.3 miles (7 kms) from the city center. The project is backed by the Canadian company Meridian Gold, which recently merged with Brancote Holdings of the United Kingdom. Key authorities in Esquel and Chubut province, where Esquel is located, support the mining effort on grounds it promises an infusion of new investment and jobs amid Argentina’s punishing economic crisis. But the plan, which calls for mining to begin in the first half of next year, has generated extensive opposition. Project foes have formed... [Log in to read more]

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January 2003

Trade

Green questions greet U.S.-Chilean trade accord

The announcement last month of a proposed free-trade agreement between Chile and the United States has turned up the heat on trade-and-environment debates in both ......

Brazil

Can Silva parlay prestige into bigger budgets?

After Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won election last October as president of Brazil, it didn’t much matter that 160 Brazilian green groups urged him ......

Argentina

Gold-mining project roils tourist community

Coverage of Esquel, a picturesque corner of Argentine Patagonia, usually is confined to the tourism pages. But these days, the Andean vacation community finds itself ......

U.S.–Mexico (Free Read)

U.S. tuna-import plan draws legal challenge

U.S. environmentalists are challenging an attempt by the administration of U.S. President George Bush to resume imports of Mexican tuna fish caught using techniques alleged ......

Peru

In Lima reserve, nature and pasta don’t mix

For more than five years, environmentalists fought construction of a pasta factory in Lima’s only nature reserve—a Ramsar wetland at the southern edge of the ......

Around the Region

Argentine forest inventory termed a “wake-up call”

The results of Argentina’s first official inventory of its native forests, while not surprising, clearly qualify as worrisome. The inventory, made public last month by Argentina’s ......

Centerpiece

Better days for Mexican protected land

Arturo Míl watches his wife Lidia Toto and several other village women gather cattails at the edge of Catemaco Lake, one of Mexico’s largest inland ......

Q&A

Roca: Bolivia’s poor must benefit from conservation

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