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CHIP NEWS
November 23, 2001

-- ALUMYSA EIA GARNERS MORE THAN 400 CRITICISMS.
Southern Region XI's Regional Environment Commission (Corema)
has received more than 400 criticisms of the Environmental
Impact Study (EIA) carried out for the Alumysa project, which
is proposed by the Canadian company Noranda.
Organizations have been granted a period through Thursday
to issue criticism about the study. Among the organizations
that offered a critique are NGOs such as the Terram Foundation
and the Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Aysen Life
Reserve (Codeff.) President of the latter organization Patricio
Ramos said "we consider Alumysa will have noxious effects for
human health, wildlife, the Aysen fiord, the native forest and
an appalling amount of substance emissions such as fluoride,
aluminum, and sulfuric anhydride.
The organizations have denounced the eventual damage that
constructing three hydroelectric plants would cause on the
region's rivers. Experts estimate that the hydroelectric plant
could cause the Cuervo, Lago Condor, and Blanco rivers to
flood, which implies flooding more than 11,640 hectares of
land.
Another organization that has opposed the project is the
Salmon and Trout Producers Association, which stated that the
initiative would pollute the Aysen fiord and damage the
industry's image in the international market.
At the behest of Corema, the Catholic University evaluated
Alumysa's EIA, stating that it "should establish whether the
emissions (of carbon dioxide) contradict Chile's position in
the Kyoto agreement" and that the EIA should have alluded to
the eventual "impact of the atmospheric emissions on the acid
rain and its effects on the soil, the superficial and marine
waters, the people, and the constructions."
The Alumysa project, according to preliminary estimates,
involves a US$2.7 billion investment for the construction of an
aluminum reducing plant, which would produce an average of
440,000 tons of the metal per year. It would also build three
hydroelectric plants to support its operation.
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