Peter Hartmann, activist leader, standing above massive rapids on the Rio Baker. “The biggest problem is that [the HidroAysén hydroelectric project] implies destroying everything, taking everything out of the region without leaving much behind…These projects are immense, on a scale that is absolutely unmanageable for this region. They’re unmanageable because this region is very fragile, ecologically, geologically as well as culturally. For example, in the area where they want to build the HidroAysén mega-project, there are as many people living there as the company is going to need to build the dams. So imagine what that means – practically doubling the area’s population.”
Photo by : Bridget Besaw, courtesy of of iLCP, taken for their RAVE campaign.
Please see more information on how this project basically shits on Chilean Patagonia.
And please also see more photos of what will be lost if the dams are constructed.
view from Gustavo's apartment, Santiago
After making love tonight I fell asleep for a few seconds then woke back up without any idea of where we were. There seemed to be people cheering all around. People cheering from all different places throughout the sky. Cheering in the dark. Then other sounds. Motorcycle and car engines. Horns. I saw the lights outside the window. Buildings. Remembered: it’s Saturday night. We’re in Santiago, Chile.
What if it was like that when you died, only the opposite? Instead of forgetting where you are then remembering again, you suddenly remember where you are (and everything that ever happened to you in this place) in ways that you’d never understood before. Then, just as suddenly and completely, you forget.