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LA ENERGAIA: Energy Policy, Regulation and Dialog in Latin America

Collected by: University of New Mexico

Archived since: May, 2010

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This archive is part of a University of New Mexico project that uses innovative technological solutions to build an easy to use knowledge base on energy policy and dialogue in Latin America for educational and policy-oriented research interests in the United States, Latin America, and the world.

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Title: Wind Power: Four New Areas Auctioned in Neuquén

URL: http://opsur.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/energia-eolica-licitaran-cuatro-nuevas-areas-en-neuquen/

Description: This article discusses the promotion of wind power by the government in Neuquén, Argentina. Foreign companies are competing to gain access to lands opened up by the local government for the purpose of establishing wind farms. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Power Wind Argentina Energy Farm,  Development ,  Model Investment Foreign Policy Government

Title: Climate Crisis and Scheduled Destruction of Forests

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/crisis-clim-tica-y-destrucci-n-programada-de-bosques---silvia-ribeiro-etc

Description: This article critiques multilateral policy programs - such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and the Clean Development Mechanism - that focus on using market incentives, such as carbon offsets, as the means to address deforestation and carbon emission issues linked to the climate change crisis. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Oil Fossil Fuel Environment Carbon Emissions Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Climate Change Deforestation,  Development ,  Model Policy Clean Development Mechanism Kyoto Protocol

Title: Challenges of the Bolivian Crisis

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/desaf-os-de-la-crisis-boliviana--zibechi

Description: This article discusses the popular uprisings in Bolivia in response to the increased fuel costs legislated by the Evo Morales government in Bolivia in December 2010. The author briefly examines what this popular resistance could mean for the region. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Indigenous Power Bolivia Energy,  Development ,  Model Evo Morales Resistance Popular Democracy Fuel Leftist Regulation Government Policy

Title: Amazon Multimodal Axis of the IIRSA:The Pasto-Macoa Highway

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/eje-multimodal-amazonas-de-la-iirsa--la-carretera-pasto-mocoa

Description: This report examines the Pasto-Macoa Highway Project, an infrastructure project of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA). The project proposes to construct a highway from Pasto to Macoa within Colombia as part of the eventual construction of a transcontinental highway, from Tumaco, Colombia to Belem, Brazil, thereby providing a road linking the Pacific to the Atlantic. The article looks at issues surrounding this project, including the potential impact on indigenous communities. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Indigenous Megaproject Amazon Colombia Environment Brazil Peru Ecuador Road Highway Transportation Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA) Infrastructure Forest Communication Reserve Protected Area,  Development

Title: Oil Amnesia in Bolivia

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/la-amnesia-petrolera-en-bolivia

Description: This article discusses Decree 0676, adopted by the Bolivian government of Evo Morales on October 20, 2010, which doubled the size of the country's oil fields. The new areas for oil exploitation incorporate previously protected areas, including over 690,000 hectares of the Madidi National Park, 723,000 hectares of the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, 154 hectares of the Aguaragüe National Park, and 100,000 hectares of the Iñao National Park. The author provides a general overview of past conflicts over oil and oil disasters that have taken place within Bolivia. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Indigenous Oil Bolivia Environment Evo Morales,  Development ,  Model Biodiversity Reserve Conservation Exploration Consultation

Title: Movements State Movements

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/movimientos-estado-movimientos---raul-zibechi

Description: This article discusses the often contentious relationships that exist between social movements and progressive (or leftist) governments in Latin America. Focusing especially on the cases of Bolivia and Ecuador, the author looks at how the relationship between social movements and leftist governments changed in the region once the leftist government took power and began to operate with state interests in mind. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Citizen Indigenous Bolivia NGO Ecuador Social Movement Policy Government Civil Society State Mobilization,  Development ,  Model Relations Democracy

Title: New Conflicts, Old Actors

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/nuevos-conflictos--viejos-actores---raul-zibechi

Description: This article discusses the organizing efforts of indigenous peoples from various parts of Latin American - including Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia - in response to the pressures of mining, oil, and hydroelectric interest on their communities and ecosystems. The author also proposes opening up the debate on the development model adopted by states. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Indigenous Oil Mines Hydroelectric Bolivia Argentina NGO Agreement Mineral Amazon Colombia Mining Brazil Andean Region Peru Ecuador Cauca Plan Colombia Social Movement Mobilization Landless Workers Movement (MST) Transnational Multinational Corporation The Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia Barrick Gold United States Canada,  Development ,  Model USAID

Title: Brazilian Sub-Imperialism in Bolivia and Latin America

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/subimperialismo-brasile-o-en-bolivia-y-am-rica-latina

Description: This article by Mathias Luce, a Professor of International Political Economy in Brazil, discusses the growing dominance of Brazilian mining, energy, and oil companies within South America. The author views Brazil as a rising sub-imperialist power and briefly examines how it came to be so. He also looks at the changing power dynamics within South America, linked to global processes, and explores what this will mean for the region. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Natural Gas Indigenous Biomass Oil Mines Hydroelectric Bolivia Paraguay Biofuel Mineral Mining Brazil Peru Petrobras Infrastructure Soybean Capital Ownership Foreign Investment,  Development ,  Vale Votorantim Odebrecht Gerdau Friboi Ecuador Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA) Integration Mercosur UNASUR Venezuela

Title: Tensions Between Extractive and Redistribution in the Process of Change in Latin America

URL: http://www.abyayalacolectivo.com/web/compartir/noticia/tensiones-entre-extractivismo-y-redistribucion-en-los-procesos-de-cambio-de-america-latina--zibechi

Description: This article includes a speech delivered by Raúl Zibechi, Uruguayan journalist and researcher, who spoke at the Social Forum of the Americas that was held at Asunción, Paraguay in August 2010. He speaks about the tensions inherent to the extractive model of development and the issues related to the redistribution of wealth under this model. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Indigenous Oil Mines Hydroelectric Power Biofuel Mineral Amazon Environment Mining Extraction,  Development ,  Distribution Wealth Social Movement Water Inequality

Title: Argentina: "The Nuclear Issue is Another Face of Development"

URL: http://www.biodiversidadla.org/Principal/Agencia_de_Noticias_Biodiversidadla/Argentina_El_tema_nuclear_es_otra_cara_mas_del_desarrollismo

Description: This article discusses a 24-page report released by the Sustainable Southern Cone Program (CSS) called "Nuclear Power in the Risk Society," as part of its Think Energy series. The article also includes an interview with Bertinat Pablo, a specialist in energy issues. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Alternative Nuclear Argentina NGO Sustainable,  Development ,  South American Regional Integration Initiative (IIRSA) Cochabamba of the World People's Conference on Climate Change (CMPCC) Sustainable Southern Cone Program (CSS)

Title: Agroenergy: Does It Serve Life or Capital?

URL: http://www.biodiversidadla.org/Principal/Contenido/Noticias/La_agroenergia_sirve_a_la_vida_o_al_capital

Description: This article discusses the development of biofuels and energy sustainability within the context of a capitalist development model. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Biomass Renewable Biofuel Fossil Fuel Sustainable Environment Climate Change Economic,  Development

Title: YPFB Offers New Areas of Operation to More than 60 Oil Companies in Sararenda Field, the Base of Bolivia's Energy Security

URL: http://www.bolpress.com/art.php?Cod=2011020308

Description: This article discusses the projected reserves of natural gas in Bolivia available for extraction and the Bolivian government's invitation to transnational oil companies for project proposals and partnership agreements to explore and exploit these reserves. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Natural Gas Oil Bolivia Thermal Nationalization Reserve Exploration Transnational Companies,  Development ,  Project

Title: Interview with Chico Mendes

URL: http://www.everde.cl/2011/01/amazonia-entrevista-chico-mendes.html

Description: This article includes a fictional interview with Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and environmental activist that was murdered in 1988 by ranchers to end his defense of the Brazilian rainforest. The interview considers what Mendes' response to the current state of affairs in Brazil and the Amazon would be if he had not been killed. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Amazon Environment Brazil Chico Mendes Rubber Deforestation Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,  Development ,  Conservation

Title: Ecological Earthquake in Chile

URL: http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=esp&idnews=3582&olt=468

Description: This article discusses the opportunities for incorporating renewable, alternative, and sustainable energy sources into reconstruction efforts following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile on February 27, 2010. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Solar Electric Pollution Power Wind Renewable Alternative Chile Environmental Impact Biodiversity Reconstruction Destruction Earthquake Tsunami Sustainability Urban Planning Recycling Dry Toilet Compost,  Development ,  Cell Phone Decentralization Consumption Household

Title: A Road Built to be Flooded

URL: http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=esp&idnews=3770

Description: This article discusses the rush to complete the Interoceanic Highway South, in southeastern Peru, a highway that will connect Peru and Brazil. While laborers rush to complete the highway on time, a major problem remains that 100 kilometers of this road will be covered with water as the land overlaps with the Inambari hydroelectric dam project. Much of the section of road that will be flooded has already been completed. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Hydroelectric Power Amazon Brazil Peru Interoceanic Highway South Inambari,  Development ,  Water Flood

Title: The Population that Watches Its Amazon

URL: http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=esp&idnews=3841

Description: This article discusses the efforts of the Amazonian Association for the Amazon (AMPA) in Peru to obtain land concessions from the Peruvian government in order to conserve biodiversity and prevent deforestation. Article in Spanish.

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Subject:   Oil Mines NGO Mineral Amazon Mining Peru Deforestation Water Climate Change Biodiversity Sustainability Conservation,  Development ,  Protected Area Ecotourism Watershed The Amazonian Association for the Amazon (AMPA)

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