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ENVIRONMENTALISTS claimed victory today after Chile’s government rejected an $8 billion (£4.77bn) proposal to dam Patagonian rivers to meet the country’s growing energy demands.
A ministerial commission rejected the HidroAysen plan, which would have dammed two of the world’s wildest rivers and built more than 1,000 miles of power lines to supply energy to central Chile.
Chile’s ministers of agriculture, energy, mining, economy and health voted unanimously to reject the project.
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Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November