Tag: Tierra del Fuego

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 06:55 UTC

  Falklands soil and pebbles were received by the Pope from Argentine governor

  

  Soil and pebbles from the Falkland Islands together with letters from Tierra del Fuego residents were received by Pope Francis during the recent visit of an Argentine delegation that included president Mauricio Macri, several ministers and three governors, one of them, Ms. Rosana Bertone from the most austral of Argentine provinces.

• Friday, October 30th 2015 - 06:21 UTC

  Malvinas Cause pamphlet to be released this week in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Tierra del Fuego governor Fabiana Ríos and members of the Malvinas Observatory met at Ushuaia government house to thank Ushuaia Bureau for the design and elaboration of the Malvinas Cause pamphlet which outlines the Argentine position in the Falklands Islands sovereignty claim and will be released later in the week.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 01:37 UTC

  Noble Falklands Ltd oil activities are 'illegal' and 'clandestine' claims Argentina

  

  The Argentine government has declared “illegal” and “clandestine” the hydrocarbons' exploration activities carried out off the Falklands/Malvinas Islands by the Houston based Noble Falklands Limited company, according to a resolution by the country's Energy Office.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 05:15 UTC

  Lady Alice: “Argentines eat a lot of beef, but have never eaten a journalist”

  

  Jeremy Clarkson and BBC's 'Top Gear' program need publicity and controversy to keep going and that he has managed with his recent incursion through the south of Argentina, which ended with his team escorted to the border with Chile fearing 'for their lives', which obviously impeded them from accomplishing their formal task but not the real objective.

• Monday, August 4th 2014 - 06:55 UTC

  GeoPark has plans to drill 35 exploratory wells in Chilean Tierra del Fuego by end of 2014

  

  Oil and gas explorer GeoPark expects to end the year having drilled 35 wells in Chilean Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego, which must be added to the 560 million dollars the company has invested in the region since it began operations in 2006, said the company in an economic impact report presented by consultants Gemines.

• Saturday, June 28th 2014 - 10:13 UTC

  Falklands' address in Alejandro Betts new Argentine DNI and passport

  

  Former Falkland Islander Alejandro Betts was awarded on Friday an Argentine DNI and passport, with his alleged Falklands address, at an official ceremony at the Argentine UN embassy office in New York.

• Wednesday, April 9th 2014 - 07:03 UTC

  Algeciras mayor highlights 'English occupation' of Gibraltar and the Falklands

  

  The mayor of the Spanish town of Algeciras, Jose Ignacio Landaluce flew back this weekend from Argentina, where he had attended a twinning ceremony with Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego that sought to highlight the ‘English occupation’ of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 17:40 UTC

  Falklands cruise season: Ushuaia warns “Gaucho Rivero” bill will be fully enforced

  

  The “Gaucho Rivero” bill which bans the access of British flagged (red ensign) or convenience flagged vessels which call in the Falkland Islands remains fully in force for Ushuaia, said Marcelo Echazú, head of the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, Infuetur, on announcing this year’s cruise season.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina recalls its major UN diplomatic success in 1964/65

  

  Tierra del Fuego media recalled that on 17 September 1964 a United Nations sub-committee unanimously recommended that the “Malvinas case” be included among issues referred to Decolonisation and thus admits ‘the existence of sovereignty dispute over the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands’.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 20:04 UTC

  Successful fracking for tight gas in Tierra del Fuego, announces Chile’s ENAP

  

  Chile’s government oil and gas company, ENAP, confirmed a successful experiment with hydraulic fracturing to extract non conventional tight gas at the Arenal Block in Tierra del Fuego, where the company operates with no partners.