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Puelo sin Torres

Puelo sin Torres

Puelo Sin Torres is a campaign that amplifies the citizen movement to defend the Puelo River.


Puelo Sin Torres is a citizen movement made up of people who believe in community development that respects and lives in harmony with nature. We protect Puelo because it is a territory with unique biodiversity and a strong local identity.

This project marks the beginning of Puelo Patagonia’s story. The organization was founded in 2013 to protect the Puelo River from the threat of the Mediterráneo hydroelectric plant — a project that endangered the region’s biodiversity and the sustainable tourism potential of the watershed and its communities.

Thanks to legal action, strong community pressure, and technical support from the NGO, the project was successfully halted in 2016.

Learn more about that story here:

SUMMARY

Project name
Puelo Sin Torres: citizen movement to defend the Puelo River.

Goals
» Listen to and collect the opinions of local residents who wish to make their voices heard. » Inform the community about the objective implications of the Mediterráneo project. » Defend the territory through legal action.
Progress
» Community presentations before the Chilean Chamber of Deputies and Senate. » Legal strategy to revoke the environmental permit (RCA) of the Mediterráneo project.
» Monitoring of water rights in the watershed.
» Campaña comunicacional.
» Filing of complaints for environmental damage and project fragmentation by IRLA S.A.
» Definitive cancellation of the Mediterráneo hydroelectric plant project.

SUMMARY

Project name
Puelo Sin Torres: citizen movement to defend the Puelo River.

Goals
» Listen to and collect the opinions of local residents who wish to make their voices heard. » Inform the community about the objective implications of the Mediterráneo project. » Defend the territory through legal action.
Progress
» Community presentations before the Chilean Chamber of Deputies and Senate. » Legal strategy to revoke the environmental permit (RCA) of the Mediterráneo project.
» Monitoring of water rights in the watershed.
» Campaña comunicacional.
» Filing of complaints for environmental damage and project fragmentation by IRLA S.A.
» Definitive cancellation of the Mediterráneo hydroelectric plant project.

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