Tag: economic development

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  UN water rights expert questions Chile for placing economic development over human rights

  

  Chile on Thursday faced questioning by a United Nations water rights expert who suggested the government could be placing economic development over human rights through controversial agriculture and energy projects.

• Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Macri praises Chinese investment in hydropower projects in Patagonia

  

  Argentina's president Mauricio Macri on Monday said the joint Argentina-China hydropower megaproject is “highly important” and “emblematic” in terms of renewable energy and economic development. Macri made the remarks during his first official visit to the construction site of the project, where two hydroelectric dams, Condor Cliff and La Barrancosa, are being erected along the Santa Cruz River in Patagonia to boost national energy output.