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CHIP News for October 2, 1998

>SOURCE:  EL MERCURIO
>SOURCE:  LA TERCERA
 --  PEHUENCHE DEMAND MORE COMPENSATION.
>Representatives of the 83 Pehuenche families who have agreed to
>sell their land for the construction of the US$500 million Ralco dam
>demanded Thursday that Endesa give them more monetary
>compensation than originally offered.  Endesa must raise the value of
>its livestock offering from US$1,700 per family to US$3,200 and the
>company should give each family US$3,800 in cash for them to leave
>their properties, they said.
>        Pehuenche representative Ricardo Gallina met Wednesday with
>the new National Indigenous Development Board (Conadi) Director
>Rodrigo Gonzalez and made the community's wishes known.  Endesa's
>relocation plan, with an approximate cost of US$19 million, would
>move Pehuenche families to the EL Barco plot further up the Bio Bio
>River in Region VIII.  The construction of Ralco would flood 600
>hectares of Pehuenche land.  The cost of the relocation does not
>include the construction of new homes and barns for the Pehuenche.
>        Endesa has made several modifications in its relocation plan,
>and has now included financial support for Pehuenche families living
>in the area and not directly affected by the plant's construction.  The
>US$4.3 million project consists of housing subsidies, employment
>initiatives, providing electricity, building roads, constructing schools
>and soil improvement plans.
>        In related news, representatives of the eight families who
>refuse sign land barter contracts with Endesa said Thursday in
>Temuco that they will not meet with the new National Indigenous
>Development Board (Conadi) Director Rodrigo Gonzalez until he
publicly declares his position on Ralco.  Earlier in the week they had
given him a 48 hour deadline to make an official announcement,
which Gonzalez apparently ignored.

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