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Article: Logging Gripes.(Chile)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Chile's National Environment Commission collects criticism from activist and business leaders.
CHILE'S RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL BATtlegrounds--Trillium and Ralco--are so well known they go by single names like Brazilian soccer stars.
Another quality the two investments have in common is less auspicious. After millions spent on planning and tough legal and political clashes, the logging project and the major new dam remain in development limbo, neither canceled nor really moving forward.
Yet the final casualty of the political fire fights, which forged Chile's nascent green movement in the summers of 1996 and 1997, may well be the reputation of the ...