Chile drops hugely controversial mega-dam project in wild Patagonia

Mongabay: One of the world's most controversial mega-dam projects met its likely end this week when Chile's Committee of Ministers voted to cancel the permits for the HidroAysén project. Costing around $8 billion and expected to produce about 2.75 gigawatts, the HidroAysén project involved building five large dams on two wild rivers in Chile's famously-unspoiled Patagonia region. Yet critics of the proposal said it threatened both the environment and local communities. "Patagonia's rugged and varied wilderness......

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