Two Amazon gas lines get very different reviews

May 2004

Brazil

Two Amazon gas lines get very different reviews

When road and pipeline projects are proposed for Brazil’s Amazon, green groups here often object, citing the well-documented danger that developmental inroads will invite colonization ......

Mexico

Debate on Mexican biosecurity legislation enters homestretch

Legislative consideration here of a long-delayed bill to establish official policy on transgenics has led to a war of words involving Mexico’s scientific, environmental and ......

Colombia

Colombia commits to debt-for-nature deal

Colombia has agreed to a debt-for-nature swap with the U.S. government and three international environmental groups that will allow it to redirect US$10 million from ......

Legislation pending in Venezuela’s National Assembly would decentralize management of the country’s water resources, organize water-policy planning along ecological lines and encourage sustainable water use. The ......

Costa Rica

Costa Rican mine project awaiting permit

Warned by a Costa Rican health official that it lacks a permit to proceed to the next phase of its project, a local subsidiary of ......

Around the Region

Mexico launches law to safeguard water supply

Mexico is moving to tackle its mounting fresh water crisis. Calling water a “national security matter,” Alberto Cárdenas, head of the country’s Environment and Natural ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Gloom amid boom in farmed salmon

In a purely economic sense, Chilean salmon farming in recent years has made astounding strides. Since the government began promoting development of the industry here ......

Q&A

Man on a mission against sea-cage salmon farming

Don Staniford is managing director of the Salmon Farm Protest Group, a UK nonprofit that tracks salmon-farm disease and pollution worldwide. In 2002, Staniford won ......

Two Amazon gas lines get very different reviews

Brazil

When road and pipeline projects are proposed for Brazil’s Amazon, green groups here often object, citing the well-documented danger that developmental inroads will invite colonization and, thus, ever-more rainforest destruction. Such is the case with the 324-mile (522-km), US$380 million natural gas pipeline that the state oil company Petrobras hopes to build in Rondônia state, from its Urucu field to the city of Porto Velho. Green organizations warn the project could touch off a devastating land-settlement stampede. But there are exceptions—among them, a seemingly similar Petrobras project slated for Amazonas state. It calls for construction, at the same cost, of a 260-mile (417-km) gas pipeline through mostly virgin Amazon rainforest from the city of Coari to... [Log in to read more]

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May 2004

Brazil

Two Amazon gas lines get very different reviews

When road and pipeline projects are proposed for Brazil’s Amazon, green groups here often object, citing the well-documented danger that developmental inroads will invite colonization ......

Mexico

Debate on Mexican biosecurity legislation enters homestretch

Legislative consideration here of a long-delayed bill to establish official policy on transgenics has led to a war of words involving Mexico’s scientific, environmental and ......

Colombia

Colombia commits to debt-for-nature deal

Colombia has agreed to a debt-for-nature swap with the U.S. government and three international environmental groups that will allow it to redirect US$10 million from ......

Venezuela

Venezuelan bill targets water management

Costa Rica

Costa Rican mine project awaiting permit

Warned by a Costa Rican health official that it lacks a permit to proceed to the next phase of its project, a local subsidiary of ......

Around the Region

Mexico launches law to safeguard water supply

Mexico is moving to tackle its mounting fresh water crisis. Calling water a “national security matter,” Alberto Cárdenas, head of the country’s Environment and Natural ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Gloom amid boom in farmed salmon

In a purely economic sense, Chilean salmon farming in recent years has made astounding strides. Since the government began promoting development of the industry here ......

Q&A

Man on a mission against sea-cage salmon farming

Don Staniford is managing director of the Salmon Farm Protest Group, a UK nonprofit that tracks salmon-farm disease and pollution worldwide. In 2002, Staniford won ......