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Represión en Valdivia. Chile.
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Represíon en Valdivia, CHile
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REPRESIÓN EN VALDIVIA EN VOTACION EIA DE REPRESA DEL RIO SAN PEDRO







¿ESTE ES EL 'GOBIERNO CIUDADANO' AL QUE NOS INVITÓ LA PRESIDENTA? AYER MIERCOLES INTENTAMOS EJERCER NUESTRA CIUDADANÍA OPINANTE, PARTICIPANTE Y DISIDENTE... Y DE VUELTA RECIBIMOS PUERTAS CERRADAS, DETENIDOS POR FUERZAS ESPECIALES DE CARABINEROS Y UN INTENDENTE QUE NO ESTÁ DISPUESTO A ESCUCHAR A LA GENTE.

AQUI VA UN RELATO DE NUESTRA EXPERIENCIA DE AYER, DURANTE LA VOTACIÓN DEL ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL DE LA REPRESA DEL RIO SAN PEDRO (COLBÚN), POR PARTE DE LA COREMA.

'Eran las 16:45 y caminábamos por Av. Yungay camino al Edificio Seminario, donde se desarrollaría a las 17:00 una sesión publica de la COREMA, el tema: votación del EIA de la Central Hidroeléctrica San Pedro de la empresa COLBUN. Se generaba así un creciente interés ciudadano avalado por los mismos instrumentos que el gobierno ha considerado para iniciar la elaboración de la estrategia de desarrollo regional , además de ser una muestra de la alta sensibilidad y preocupación de la comunidad por el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales.

Primera alerta: apostados a lo largo de la avenida se encontraban las fuerzas especiales...??? ...avanzando un poco más nos encontramos un fuerte contingente policial custodiando la intendencia. Pero eso no era todo, tuvimos que mostrar nuestros documentos de identificación y registrarnos en la puerta de ingreso... y fuimos custodiados hasta la sala de reuniones.

Aquí nos esperaban más sorpresas... NO había espacio para la cuidadanía, la sala estaba llena, un agente de seguridad de civil, dejaba entrar a la sala discrecionalmente. Tanta era la discriminación que una mujer mapuche fue empujada y conminada a retirarse, era la representante del parlamento KozKoz. En cambio, el representante de Colbun, Pío Infante, fue invitado a ingresar. ¡Así NO construimos democracia participativa, señor Intendente!!!

Ante el reclamo por la discriminación y la arbitrariedad, pudo ingresar Vladimir Riesco, destacado abogado ambientalista, y Alejandro Kohler, alcalde en ejercicio de Panguipulli. Sigue llegando la prensa e ingresa rápidamente... En realidad, se morían de miedo que una mujer mapuche ingresara a la sala. Finalmente ella ingresa y puede leer la carta de reclamación que trae. Sin embargo, la abogada asesora de la COREMA desestima su contenido y se genera una discusión con el abogado Riesco. Tenemos así relegados al pasillo SIN PODER ENTRAR AL SALÓN al equipo técnico evaluador de la municipalidad de Panguipulli (medioambiente, turismo) a representantes ambientalistas y del mundo mapuche.

Mientras, en las afueras del recinto se congregan ciudadanos a los que se les impide acceder al edificio, entre ellos el diputado Urresti. De pronto, la Fuerzas Especiales reciben la orden de reprimir a los manifestantes, y la bataola producida permite que el diputado ingrese al edificio, sólo quedaba que ingresara a la salsa de reuniones. Finalmente consigue entrar.

Paralelamente a pocas cuadras de allí, en el Club de la Unión se desarrollaba el 2º Foro Regional 'Nueva Región, Cómo Vamos?', donde el director ejecutivo del Comité Nueva Región, Nestor Santibañez, formulaba un llamado a la comunidad valdiviana a participar: 'Es importante que la ciudadanía participe, la sociedad civil debe involucrarse en la construcción de la nueva región y nosotros como ciudadanos debemos dar nuevos bríos a ello'. Allí se formulaba abiertamente la pregunta ¿Cómo Vamos? Le respondemos: MAL, muy mal!!!! El Intendente Iván Flores ordenó el ingreso de la Fuerza pública para que desalojara a la ciudadanía que reclamaba para que no se aprobara el EIA de este proyecto, que ha sido muy cuestionado por varias instituciones del estado, grupos ambientalistas y por el mundo mapuche. En total 21 detenidos, entre ellos el Alcalde de Panguipullis, Alejandro Kohler, y Pedro Cardyn, médico de Panguipulli.

¿Qué clase de participación ciudadana hay cuando se sesiona en una sala en que la puerta se cierra con llave ? ¿De qué ciudadanía participativa estamos hablando? ¿Donde están los espacios para ejercerla? ¿qué retorno de la democracia es este con prácticas fascistas y donde priman los intereses económicos? ¿Dónde queda la libertad de expresión?

Sólo encontramos verticalidad y no deliberación, la ciudadanía participando es un PROBLEMA para el gobierno... las empresas transnacionales son dueñas de nuestros recursos naturales EN COMPLICIDAD con el gobierno. La primera mandataria y los demás mandatarios no están cumpliendo el mandato a que se comprometieron con el pueblo... están actuando según sus mezquinos intereses, en complicidad con quienes ostentan el poder económico. La complicidad de mantener las injustas leyes que vendieron nuestro territorio a las Corporaciones transnacionales.

Sabemos que hay intereses creados, y que esa situación está tan normalizada por las esferas del poder, que ni les da vergüenza ejercer este tipo de actos indignos de violencia hacia la ciudadanía a la que constantemente han invitado a participar. Sabemos que esta NO ES UNA CENTRAL DE PASO, sino un embalse que trataría más de 30 millones de metros cúbicos al mes, lo que afectaría directamente a la flora y fauna de la zona, con el consiguiente perjuicio para el ecosistema y el turismo.

La sesión de la COREMA duró varias horas, y avanzada la noche se dio por aprobado el EIA de este proyecto hidroeléctrico, casi por unanimidad, con la aprobación de TODOS LOS SEREMIS DE LA REGION. Definitivamente, NO PODEMOS CONTAR CON NADIE... los funcionarios de gobierno pierden la capacidad de juicio crítico y de opinión propia, y acceden mansos a las órdenes del mercado y de la domesticación que su cargo les regala.

La indignación de nuestra gente crece... la ciudadanía se organiza, se moviliza... A COLBUN LE DECIMOS: NO LES SERÁ FÁCIL.

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Panguipulli Sustentable

http://panguipullisustentable.blogspot.com/

Panguipulli SIN hidroelectricas

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October 27, 2008 | 9:50 AM Comments  0 comments
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Video Acción por los Cisnes, "nuevos tiempos", FAHRENHEIT
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Video Action by the Swans, “new times”, FAHRENHEIT
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Video Action by the Swans, “new times”, FAHRENHEIT

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September 8, 2008 | 4:16 PM Comments  0 comments


Ecologistas anulan pacto con el gobierno
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Ecologists annul pact with the government
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Ecologists annul pact with the government





Signed with Bachelet when she was presidential candidate in 2005. Three times the Bachelet administration denied the referred point not to include the nuclear option in the power policy, according to the environmentalists. Reason sufficient to evict the commitment to support its management. Their darts aim at Marcelo Tokman. The Nation, 23 of April of 2008.

The decision was taken days ago and it only lacked to give him to warning to the minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Jose Antonio See-Rooster, which happened yesterday in afternoon in the Currency. The environmentalist and ecological organizations evicted the agreement that signed with the then candidate Michelle Bachelet the 21 of November of 2005 in the Botanical Garden Chagual, that contained ten commitments for a sustainable development, because its administration did not fulfill it.

The main argument is the repeated violation of point 7 of the decalogue: “Not to include the nuclear option in the national power policy”. According to the letter which they gave See-Rooster, that commitment was transgressed in more than an occasion.

First, with the decree of March of the year last of the Ministry of Mining that creates the presidential commission “Work group in Nucleus-Electricity” with bottoms public superior to the 100 million weights for its work, which was reiterated in the shipment to the Parliament of the budget of the nation for this year where financing for that same group is included.

Second, with the participation of Marcelo Tokman the past 27 of March in the seminary “nuclear Energy: an option for Chile ", where the minister of Energy announced two million dollars to evaluate the incorporation of the nuclear energy in the electrical matrix of the country which they would repeat the 2009. “That one was not a seminary, but a lobby of the nuclear companies”, says one of the environmentalists.

See-Rooster said that the President will respond to them in the next ones and who she will raise the subject in the political committee. The name of Tokman was the one that was repeated more in half an hour of meeting. “(See-Rooster) it said Us that the announcements of Tokman must to the power conjuncture and to the pressures of different sectors. But he was intentionally very vague in its sayings ", tells one of the assistants to the appointment. The environmentalists raised that the only thing whom its position would change it would be the resignation of the minister of Energy. “But we know that that is not going to happen”.

The environmentalists, nevertheless, recognize that she advanced in some points: the formulation of the projects of law for the creation of the Ministry of Environment and the Supervision of Environmental Control, the creation of the National Service of Parks and the elaboration of the Integral Strategy of River basins. But they notice that little or nothing became in the establishment of a System of Environmental River basins and lines of fiscal policy for the environmental sustentabilidad; the extension of the Bottom of Environmental Protection; the glacier protection and not to open passage commercial to the transgénicos cultures.

Today the representatives of the 23 organizations who signed the agreement of Chagual will make a press conference (10: 30 hours), in the offices of the Office of the public prosecutor of Medio Ambiente (FIMA) to give greater details on the reasons of the aim of the environmental pact with the Government.


10 COMMITMENTS FOR the ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTENTABILIDAD OF the NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(AGREEMENT CHAGUAL)

1-Shipment to the Parliament, finishing the first year of government, the reforms to Law 19,300 for the creation of the Ministry of Environment.
1.1-Creation during the mandate, of an Undersecretary's office of Natural Resources and Biodiversity (employee of the Ministry) that articulates the sectorial policies and programs for the sustainable use of the natural resources and the biodiversity. The present Conama, happened to constitute itself in an Undersecretary of Environmental Management.
1.2-Generate a articulated municipal environmental authority with the Ministry of the Medioambiente, in order that the communal governments have a local environmental policy. (it requires to modify Law of Municipalities)

2-Create an Environmental Supervision, that fortifies the supervise roll of the State, reduces the discretion and assures the probity civil employee.

3-Formulate and to send to the Congress a Law Marco de Territorial Ordenamiento, that articulates the existing instruments and balances the participation of the ministries, the regional authorities and the citizens, strategically to order the 4-Establish

territory during the mandate a System of Environmental Accounts that it includes: existing accounts of natural capital, rents by natural resources (water, mining, earth) and indicators on amount and quality.

5-Establish during the mandate 2 lines of fiscal policy to revert the environmental insustentabilidad: a) Reorientation of subsidies and mechanisms of promotion, b) To reformulate existing economic instruments to internalizar costs and of preventing environmental liabilities.

6-Extend the Environmental Bottom (Law 19,300) to an annual amount of 5 million dollars (20 million dollars during the mandate), for investigation and environmental action. The Bottom will be oriented to support training centers and organizations of the civil society.

7-No to include the nuclear option in the national power policy.

8-No to open the country commercial to the transgénicos cultures, and to establish the requirement of Studies of Environmental Impact for the present reproduction of transgénicas seeds.

9-Protect the glaciers, and not to approve its removal and/or destruction.

10- To establish a National Service of National Parks that become position of the protected areas public; support and SOURCE articulates with the private protected
areas:

http://www.terram.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2152

April 24, 2008 | 10:41 AM Comments  0 comments
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DECLARACIÓN PÚBLICA URGENTE
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URGENT PUBLIC DECLARATION
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URGENT PUBLIC DECLARATION

(Letter opened to President Michelle Bachelet)

Santiago, April of 2008

CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS WORRIED

ABOUT VIOLENT FACTS HAPPENED

IN the COAST OF the NEW REGION OF the RIVERS


the down signatory organizations and people we adhered to the communitarian demand of cease to the violence and the empire of the State of Right in the coastal zone of Valdivia is reestablished immediately, in the Commune of San jOse of the Mariquina, where Company CELCO tries by the force to install ducto of unloading of its liquid remainders of the plant of Valdivia cellulose.

The Missisipi creek and the town of Mehuín, located to 80 km. of the city of Valdivia, from the last week they have been occupied by a numerous group of people who support to the Celco company, which she has begun to harass the population and to strike and to threaten the members of the organization who heads the resistance to ducto, the Committee of Defense of the Sea of Mehuín, and the local population, including men, women and children.

Some of these people are same who during year 2007 signed a millionaire agreement with Celco, raising opposition which they maintained ducto and jeopardizing their collaboration to the company in exchange for economic benefits.

The group of violentistas that support to CELCO has been walking for days in light trucks by the coastal town with total impunity in an attitude of “matonaje and permanent threat”.

Simultaneously, to the place a considerable contingent of the police militarized with all its repressive infrastructure has been transferred as trucks send to water and gases, those that have been dedicated to observe the increasing violence, without as opposed to taking part the aggressions that are object the settlers, which leaves unprotected and impotent still more the community.

In the sea, in as much, the Navy military has retired by the force the networks that the artisan fishermen had installed in the zones of handling that the law confers to them.

On the other hand, the mass media have shut up these serious events. In spite of the denunciations and to the regional alert, no massive mass media, have become present in the zone.

The previous thing, an unacceptable complicity between the political power, the police forces, massive mass media and the Celco company is come off for, using average ilegítimos, to fold the legitimate will of the citizenship to take care of its health and its environment, as the Constitution guarantees it.

As opposed to this:

1. - We demanded an urgent answer of the government who assures the constitutional rights the threatened settlers.

2. - We demanded to know which is the mission that is fulfilling the police in the place and so that it does not act before serious the illicit ones that it is observing.

3. - We demanded that the government informs about which is the mission that is fulfilling the Navy in the zone and so that it appears protecting interests of a private company.

4. - Finally, we demanded that the measures are taken to guarantee the tranquillity and security of the leaders and members of the Committee of Defense of the Sea of Mehuín and its relatives.

Kindly



Ecological Action

Regional Agenda of the Araucanía.

National association of Rural Women and Indigenous ANAMURI

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL AND INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Atacama Limpio? Vallenar Region of Atacama

Ahimsa Caravan by the Earth.

Social Cultural center and of Environment Ceibo? Maipú

Ecoceanos Center

Alive City.

CIVITA ACTIONS OF CITIZEN EMPRENDIMIENTO.

Claudius Escobar, Civil Engineer.

Claudius Lopez Vegazo.

Codeff - Earth Friends.

Group To Good Port.

Rexistencia group.

Committee of Kamarikun Human rights

Community for the Human Development.

CONAPACH.

Coordination Anti - Passover Lama of Santiago.

Corporation Against Urban, Social and Environmental Abuses of the region of Coquimbo.

Corporation of Studies and Great North Development.

Corporation FORGE and its President, Lawyer Sebastián Cox.

Corporation the Dwelling.

Eugene Vergara, independent ONG CDI

Chile Feministas

Foundation Origin.

Group of Paukartambo Music.

Striking Striking Jaime, Member National Direction Left Christian of Chile.

The Alliance by one Better Quality of Life (Network of Action in Plaguicidas and its Alternatives of Chile)

feminista Memory.

Movement Generation 80, G80.

Observatory the International of Migrations OCIM

Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts? Periodic

OLCA the Citizen.

Radial program Water Seeds.

Raul Molina Otárola, Geographer, Doctor (c) in Anthropology.

Network of Action by the Environmental Rights of the Araucanía? ROAD.

Network of Action by Social Environmental Justice - CRACKS

We save Cobquecura.

April 11, 2008 | 10:29 AM Comments  0 comments
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More woes for South America's leading cellulose producer: Neighbours of Chile's Celco upset with foul-smelling plant

RENATA STEPANOV, EL MERCURIO, LA NACIÓN, OCTOBER 3, 2006

Pollution coming from Celco's new plant in Nueva Aldea has caused many complaints.


Chile’s largest cellulose production company, Celco, is facing criticism about smells emanating from its new US$1.4 billion plant in Nueva Aldea (Region X).

This latest woe comes after the company’s much publicized stand-off with artisan fishermen, who adamantly reject a waste pipe project from Celco’s Valdivia cellulose operations (ST, August 21). The fishermen achieved a small victory recently, halting environmental tests for the planned waste pipeline into the Pacific.

Whether or not the farming families protesting the smelly Nueva Aldea plant will be as successful remains to be seen.

“The smell is unbearable. It’s like rotten vegetables or eggs,” said Héctor Rabanal, a farmer who lives close to the new Nueva Aldea complex of Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (Celco). “It makes you feel nauseous, gives you headaches, makes you want to throw up…. It’s impossible to live like this.”

Doctors at the medical clinic in Nipas, located 11 kilometers away, have received patients complaining of nausea and sickness due to the odor. But both Celco officials and local authorities assert that no one’s health is at risk – rather, the local community just needs time to get used to the smell.

“The bad smell? It was strong on Wednesday (September 27), but it’s necessary to get used to it,” said local official Benito Bravo. “The incidents have been isolated; they don’t happen much. Perhaps the kids who were nauseous and vomiting had problems before.”

Celco Public Affairs Director Iván Chamorro, who said the smell is emanating from decomposed wood, also spoke positively of the plant’s first nine months of operation.

“Generally speaking the (pilot phase) has turned out very well,” he said of the US$1.4 billion plant’s performance. “The only real annoyance neighbors can complain about is the smell. There have been bad smells; they’re not used to them, so it can cause some irritation.”

Chamorro did acknowledge that certain kinks need to be worked out at the new plant. “Obviously some things don’t function as they should--that’s why it’s called a pilot phase—and we are beginning little by little.” Moreover, he added, the emissions are “way under” the standards set by the World Health Organization and “do not pose a single health threat.”

But according to some community members, the impact goes beyond noxious odors. Rabanal’s son Victor, who produces wine in the region, said the local wine industry will perish thanks to the plant. Eighty thousand bottles of wine sent to Sweden were recently returned, he said, due to the valley’s tarnished image. “We can’t put Nueva Aldea on our labels because of the association with Celco,” he said.

Celco is Chile’s largest forestry company and the third largest company of its kind in Latin America. It belongs to the Angelini Group, owned by one of Chile’s wealthiest and most influential families. Despite its high profile status, a series of environmental mishaps – and virulent attacks from local community members, fishermen, and environmental activists – have caught the attention of the global community.

In 2005, waste emissions piped into the Cruces River from another Celco plant near Valdivia are believed to have contaminated local drinking water and led to the death and mass migration of the area’s black-necked swans (ST, May 9, 2005). Greenpeace activists blockaded the entrance to the Nueva Aldea plant on June 21, alleging that chemical waste from cellulose production will have the same impact on the Itata River (ST, Jun 23), which will receive the new plant’s emissions.

One proposed solution to the problems at both plants is to build a duct routing industrial wastes into the ocean. In February, Region VIII’s Environmental Commission (COREMA) approved this controversial project for the Nueva Aldea plant (ST, Feb. 14), and the company proposed to construct another such duct from the Valdivia plant.

This angered local artisan fishermen in the Mehuin commuity near Valdivia, who number five thousand. In August they boarded and apparently attacked the vessels conducting environmental tests (ST, August 21). So far Celco has not announced whether or not it will resume the tests.

Without the duct, the Valdivia plant can only operate at half capacity, which translates into a monthly earnings loss of US$27 million, according to company figures.

But things are looking up at the Nueva Aldea complex: management hopes to produce close to 40,000 tons of cellulose per month as of December, and will invest another US$50 million to double its production of wooden planks. This year’s overall earnings are estimated to reach US$3 billion thanks to a predicted 25 percent increase in sales.

But anti-Celco activists are not backing down. Last Saturday opponents to Celco’s Nueva Aldea plant formed a united coalition, which includes Group in the Defense of Itata, Salvemos Cobquecura (Save Cobquecura), Chillán Activo, and Greenpeace, among others. They are supported by local town councilmen Felipe Rebolledo and Carlos Garrido.

Rebellodo recently filed a claim against the Besalco construction company, hired to construct the Nueva Aldea duct, and against Celco, alleging it carried out work illegally on private property. He is also demanding that Celco to pay attention to the demands of local people in the private and public sector.

One month after Secretary General to the President Paulina Veloso proposed a round table to initiate dialogue between Celco and the communities it affects, the company appears to have warmed up to the idea. The company has contacted certain community groups, as well as the regional and national authorities, to address their concerns.

“We don’t see (the round table) as too far off; it’s one approach,” said Director of Corporate and Commercial Affairs Charles Kimber. “There have been advances in dialogue with various concerned parties, but there has been no dialogue with the fiercest opposition.”

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