Tag: Patagonia

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:41 UTC

  Picture evidence of four kilometres retraction (in 80 years) of glacier in Patagonia

  

  The Argentine Patagonian glacier Ameghino has contracted almost four kilometres over the last eighty years because of global warming according to evidence from Greenpeace.

• Monday, September 6th 2010 - 04:49 UTC

  Canadian companies fighting to control rich gold and silver project in Patagonia

  

  Rival Canadian gold mining companies Goldcorp and Eldorado have locked horns in a fight to buy up Andean Resources Ltd.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 03:32 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia controversial dam project faces serious PR challenge

  

  Daniel Fernandez, the new top executive for the controversial 3.2 billion US dollars HidroAysen dam project proposed for Chilean Patagonia, confirmed Sunday that the effort to convince Chileans about the project’s importance has not gone well and that the company is consulting five PR firms to help improve their marketing effort.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2010 - 06:22 UTC

  Crucial natural gas pipeline opens in Patagonia to help energy short Argentina

  

  Argentina will inaugurate Wednesday a key new pipeline bringing natural gas from Tierra del Fuego Province to the neighboring province of Santa Cruz. The Strait of Magellan pipeline will initially transfer 5 million cubic meters a day of gas from Cabo Espiritu Santo in Tierra del Fuego Province to Cabo Virgenes in Santa Cruz.