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dam-l CONADI FORMS LEGAL TEAM AT RALCO
CHIP News for July 30,1998
>SOURCE: EL MERCURIO
>SOURCE: LA TERCERA
> -- CONADI FORMS LEGAL TEAM AT RALCO. The National
>Indigenous Development Board (Conadi) announced yesterday it
>will create a legal team to verify if Endesa has respected Conadi's
>petition to stop construction work on the US$250 million Ralco
>hydroelectric project. Conadi made this request after detecting
>irregularities in some of the barter contracts signed between
>Endesa and Pehuenche families living near the dam site.
> Endesa must sign contracts with 90 Pehuenche families so
>that they will leave their traditional land, which Endesa plans to
>flood to make a reservoir. Conadi suspects that Endesa tricked
>some of the families into signing the barter contract, saying that
>the project had already been approved and that they had no
>choice but to sign. Ralco needs the signature of all 90 families and
>the approval of Conadi to go forward.
> Through yesterday, however, Endesa's subcontracted
>construction company Besalco continued construction work at the
>dam site. If Conadi's legal team sees that work continues today, it
>will begin legal action. Endesa's spokesperson Ignacio Swett made
>no comment yesterday, and his secretary said he was busy
>studying Conadi's petition.
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