En Chile todas las termoeléctricas están operando al margen de la ley

17.9.13

En Chile todas las termoeléctricas están operando al margen de la ley - Benitez Minister said in 2011 at the ceremonial signing of the decree, in Puchuncaví, emblem of abandonment and vulnerability to which the public is exposed against the extractive model governing the country's fate, "my commitment as Minister is to ensure that thermoelectric plants as we see today meet this standard. Online monitoring will demand to be supervised at all times by the Superintendence of the Environment ". He recalled "who spent several governments without these issues assume with will, determination and determination." As background context of the importance of this matter, we note that between 2000 and June 2011 (period in which they discussed the new regulations) were admitted to the System of Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) 222 power generation projects, finding approved that date and 33 189 in qualifying. According Terram Foundation, 93 of them correspond to thermal power projects, representing 61% of the approved megawatts (MW 15,904) in that period.