Hoybolivia.com reports: ABT: heat sources in Beni quadrupled this year compared to 2015 The Authority of Supervision and Social Control of Forests and Land (ABT) reported Tuesday [07/26/2016] that sources of heat in the Beni quadrupled this year to 9,333, from January to yesterday, compared to 2,226 recorded in the same period of 2015. “If we…
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Argentina’s YPF inks deal to explore for gas in Bolivia
EFE reports in Latino Fox News: Argentina’s YPF inks deal to explore for gas in Bolivia SANTA CRUZ – Argentine state-controlled energy company YPF signed an agreement Wednesday with Bolivian counterpart YPFB to explore an area of eastern Bolivia with potential natural gas reserves totaling 2.7 trillion cubic feet. YPFB CEO Guillermo Acha and YPF’s…
Pollution continues in Cantumarca
Red Aclo reports in El Diario: Pollution continues in Cantumarca Potosi (Red Aclo) .- Since years ago, the waste tailings dam of San Miguel, located at the top of Cantumarca, in an area of approximately 18 hectares, continue to pollute the community. One of the settlers of the place said that “the dam long pollutes…
Huanuni mine affects four municipalities with pollution
El Diario reports: According to the Defense Coordinator Huanuni mine affects four municipalities with pollution Oruro (El Diario) .- The Huanuni mine, the first state-owned tin production from Bolivia, polluting four municipalities in the department of Oruro, by dumping its wastewater into the river that leads to the lake Uru Uru and Lake Poopó currently…
Bolivia set to become latest member of the nuclear club: WTH!?
From the Chartered Institute of Building, GCR reports: Bolivia set to become latest member of the nuclear club 5 April 2016 | By David Rogers The government of Bolivia has concluded a $300m deal with Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer, to build a research complex that will lay the technical basis for the country’s future…
Bolivia’s oil, gas and mining under the spotlight in Thomson Reuters Foundation programme
Bolivia’s oil, gas and mining under the spotlight in Thomson Reuters Foundation programme by Derek Thorne Four investigations by Bolivian journalists have shed new light on the country’s extractives sector – looking at issues including unregulated gold mining and the environmental impact of oil wells in the rainforest. The stories were produced as part of…
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