Looking for ways to meet growing energy demand, Argentina and Brazil have agreed to revive plans for a binational hydroelectric station on the Uruguay River. The environmentally controversial project, called Garabí, has languished in an on-again, off-again planning limbo since the original agreement authorizing it was signed in 1972. But new Argentine President Cristina Kirchner and her Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, recently gave the initiative a strong push. On Feb. 22, the pair signed an agreement announcing their “decision” to build the facility and authorizing two state-owned companies—Brazil’s Eletrobras and Argentina’s Ebisa—to conduct technical and environmental studies. The signing took place at an energy summit in Buenos Aires in which Kirchner and Lula were pressing Bolivian President... [Log in to read more]