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Article: Hydroelectric project.(COSTA RICA)(Brief article)
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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After several decades of proposals, studies, inactivity and changes, the Boruca Hydroelectric Project appears closer than ever to becoming a reality--though not everybody likes the idea, reports The Tico Times (May 26-June 1, 2006). Despite a relocation of the controversial dam, environmental and indigenous groups maintain their resistance to the project, which they say will do more damage than good. The project looks to capitalize on the country's largest water basin, the Grande de Terraba River basin, in the center of the Southern Zone. The proposal would involve relocating 1,068 people and flooding indigenous land, according to the Costa Rican Electricity ...