Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Protest against Dam

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BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 2001 (IPS) - Some 60 civil society organizations, including farmers' groups, have joined forces in Argentina to fight the construction of the Corpus dam on the Paraná River, a joint Paraguay-Argentina project that was already rejected in a 1996 plebiscite. The movement, with support from Catholic and Baptist religious groups, opposes the government's initiative to revive plans to build a four-billion-dollar hydroelectric plant shared by the Argentine province of Misiones and Paraguay's Itapúa province.

The project was rejected five years ago by 90 percent of the participants in a Misiones plebiscite, which had a turnout of 63 percent of registered voters.