Fw: Save wild Patagonia from electrocution

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Natural Resources Defense Council

 

 

A European energy company is now scheming to build massive

hydro-electric dams on every major river in Chilean Patagonia.

We need your immediate action to stop this proposed

" electrocution " of one of the wildest regions on earth.

 

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/patagonia/takeaction

right now and urge Chile's President Bachelet to consider the

full range of alternatives before sacrificing this

world-renowned wilderness to destructive hydro-development.

 

Endesa-Spain's disastrous proposal would flood thousands of

acres of irreplaceable habitat for a vast array of rare wildlife

including South American deer, southern river otters and many

birds found only in Patagonia.

 

For the sake of its own profits, the company is claiming that

stopping up Patagonia's mighty rivers to produce electricity --

which would then be transmitted thousands of miles -- is the

only way to fuel Chile's economic growth. As part of the same

plan, Brookfield Consortium, a Canadian company, would clearcut

a 1,200-mile swath through five national parks and two

wilderness reserves to make way for the world's largest

transmission line.

 

But smarter alternatives to strengthening Chile's economy --

such as stricter energy efficiency standards and the use of

localized, clean and renewable energy sources -- are readily

available.

 

Chile's new president, Michelle Bachelet, has pledged to make

environmental protection a priority in her administration. To

fulfill that promise, she should take a hard a look at every

possible alternative before sentencing wild Patagonia to

electrocution.

 

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/patagonia/takeaction

and tell President Bachelet to spare the life of this untouched

expanse of breathtaking rainforests, glaciers, fjords and

rivers.

 

Thank you for helping to save Chile's last wilderness frontier.

 

Sincerely,

 

Frances Beinecke

President

Natural Resources Defense Council

 

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