- Chile dams will bring social and environmental destruction | Catalina May
A giant hydroelectric project threatens the Chilean Patagonian landscape. The country badly needs more energy diversityA massive hydroelectric project was approved last Monday in Chile after three years of evaluations and big controversy. The project involves the construction of five hydroelectric power stations in two of the most untouched and wildest rivers in the world – the Baker and the Pascua rivers.HidroAysén project will dam around 6,000 hectares in the remote southern Chilean Patagonia. This will have a deep environmental impact in a place as pure as that. The Aysén region is the less populated region in the country and is famous for its beauty and isolation. An interesting ecotourism industry has been developing in the area lately, which would be damaged by the dams. The project also includes the construction of a transmission line from Aysén region, all the way to the capital Santiago. This will mean power cables and 5,000 towers of 50 meters tall, one every 400 meters, along 2,200km. The effect will be the deforestation of 23,000 hectares, and six national parks as well as 11 national reserves will be damaged. The visual impact would be massive.The social impact would last for years, bringing thousands of people to live and work in Patagonia. In 2007 I lived in Chile Chico, a small city in Aysén region, and know how apprehensive and reluctant Patagonia residents are when it comes to admit new people or big changes into their lives. Most of the families there arrived in Patagonia many years ago, when there were no even paths, let alone roads. They built their lives without any help in those unexplored areas. The Chilean Patagonia without Dams group, which gathers 79 national and international groups – from Greenpeace to Aysén's bishopric – has displayed a str 巨大な水力発電プロジェクトは、チリのパタゴニアの風景を脅かしています
- Finding Common Ground Between the MLB Fan Cave, the McRib and Patagonia's Buy Less Initiative
I’ll admit it. It’s not often that I mention Major League Baseball (MLB), McDonald’s and Patagonia in the same sentence . . . or even in the same paragraph, for that matter. 私はそれを認めるよ
- Violent protests in Chile
Tens of thousands of people massed in the centre of Chile's capital yesterday for new protests against the Government's plan to dam two wild rivers in the country's southern Patagonia region.Most demonstrators were peaceful, but... 数万人の人々は、ダムの国の南部パタゴニアregion.Mostデモの2つの野生の川は、平和だった、政府の計画に対する新たな抗議のため、チリの首都昨日の中心部に集結...
- Guardian books podcast: Travel writing's new frontiers
What does it mean to be a travel writer in the age of the internet? Twenty-first century travellers can no longer bring news from abroad, as their Victorian forebears once did. As the UK's last surviving travel prize, the Dolman Travel book of the year, is awarded to a work of historical and cultural reportage, we talk to the winner, Ian Thomson, and one of the judges, the co-founder of Daunt Books Brett Wolstencroft, about where travel writing is heading.We report on the all-time favourite travel books nominated by tweeters and commenters on the books website. We also go to Beijing where Jonathan Watts meets Babara Demick, whose account of the lives of six North Koreans has won the Samuel Johnson prize.Reading listNothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (Granta)The Dead Yard by Ian Thomson (Faber)Your recommendationsThe Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay (fionalaird)A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (leobenedictus)The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark (NatalieHanman)The Way of World by Nicolas Bouvier (seventydys)The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy (Chrissiebelle8)Venice Observed by Mary McCarthy (sarahchurchwell)In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (thomasraymond)A Year Among the Persians by Edward G Browne (Dmattin)As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (JOD45)South African Winter by James Morris and Hav by Jan Morris (BOOKSA)Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (chiggi)Europe, Europe Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Danube Claudio Magris (LindesayI)Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban (Bysshe22)Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer (IamBrianSchofield)Claire ArmitsteadJonathan WattsScott Cawley
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