Around 110,180 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, and Salta during the year 2021 as a result of illegal practices, according to Greenpeace.
A fines de 2020 se inauguraron en Chaco dos centrales térmicas de biomasa incluidas en el Programa RenovAr. En aquella jornada de verano, los discursos de las autoridades celebraban el fomento de las energías renovables y la economía circular. Más allá del énfasis puesto en el aprovechamiento de los desechos, la producción de tanino (y […]
This past May, Greenpeace International hosted a live conversation with a panel of dynamic speakers about extractivism in Latin America and the communities that are resisting it.
The Unitán company s biomass electricity generating plant in the municipality of La Escondida, in the northeast Argentine province of Chaco, which began to operate in December, cost 18 million dollars to build and will supply up to 6.6 MW to the country’s power grid. CREDIT: Courtesy of Unitán
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 19 2021 (IPS) - The forest is the main resource in the Chaco, a vast plain shared by Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. And how to use it sustainably is the most difficult question. Two recently inaugurated power plants fired by forest biomass provide a possible answer, although they are not free of controversy.