by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Patagonia is the end of the world, if anyplace is, and it’s burning. Perched at the very southernmost tip of South America, the mountainous, fjord-crossed region is an inhabited wilderness. Almost 2 million people live there, on either side of the border between...
by Admin | Jun 16, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
The Chilean government rejected an $8 billion dam proposal to meet the country’s growing energy demands. The decision came form Chile’s highest administrative authority, the Committee of Ministers, and cancelled an environmental permit to build five dams on the Baker...
by Admin | Apr 9, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Green Energy
Set to be the second major economy in Latin America to resort to environmental taxation to discourage the use of carbon-intensive fuels, Chile’s government wants to impose a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from thermal power plants. The proposal for a carbon tax...
