Article: UN court rejects Argentina's construction halt request over pulp mills

Article: Argentina issues final plea to U.N. court to halt Uruguay ...
AP Worldstream;  June 9, 2006 ;     503 words ... ... highest international standards and will not contaminate the Uruguay River. The Hague-based International Court of Justice could ... 000-mile) river's management when it approved the pulp mills. The area is home to 150 species of fish and 400 bird species ...

Article: Uruguay offers to jointly monitor pulp mills with ...
Xinhua News Agency;  July 14, 2006 ;     434 words ... ... to jointly monitor pulp mills with Argentina MONTEVIDEO ... the controversial pulp mills on the Uruguay River, which forms the ... building of two giant pulp mills that Buenos Aires says violate the 1975 Uruguay River Treaty and will harm ...

Article: Greenpeace activists swim Uruguay River to protest ...
AP Worldstream;  March 20, 2006 ;     346 words ... ... Dateline: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Greenpeace activists calling for Uruguay to halt construction of two large pulp mills swam the Uruguay River on Monday with banners reading "Move out now!" More than a dozen protesters who described themselves ...

Article: ENVIRONMENT: URUGUAY AND ARGENTINA AT ODDS OVER PULP ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... GIN) -- "If we fail to keep these two big pulp mills from being built on the Uruguay River, it won't be only the local residents who ... against the installation of the eucalyptus wood pulp mills by the Empresa Nacional de Celulosa de Espaa ...

Article: URUGUAY: NEW LEFTIST LEADER WON'T BLOCK CONTROVERSIAL PULP ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  May 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... plans to build two pulp mills in western Uruguay ... the shores of the Uruguay River, generate the ... demonstration against the pulp mills. Over 15,000 ... bridge over the Uruguay River that links Fray ... proposed sites for the pulp mills are near the ...

Article: SOUTH AMERICA: PULP MILLS TO PRODUCE MORE POLLUTION ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  December 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... town near the Uruguay River, which forms ... pollution from the pulp mills in Uruguay ... eastern side of the Uruguay River is Fray Bentos ... both building pulp mills scheduled to ... management of the Uruguay River. The two companies ...

Article: Uruguay's president defends controversial pulp ...
AP Worldstream;  May 30, 2006 ;     578 words ... ... Uruguay's staunchest defense yet of the pulp mills in months of bitter feuding with Argentina ... two plants being built just across the Uruguay River will pollute Argentine farmlands and ... building behind police barricades. The two pulp mills are being built for a total of US ...