Address Remarks

It is paradoxical that a seminar of this level, funded by HidroAysen, with the purpose of analyzing the eventual compatibility between nature tourism and hydroelectricity does not consider the reports that public services were made in the topic tourism to the most concrete thing that exists today in the region: the own environmental impact study with which the company intends to build five dams in Patagonia. Daniela Castro, technical secretariat of the Council of defence of Patagonia (CDP), expressed that this type of initiatives undertaken by the company intended to divert the attention to the fact that its environmental impact study has been strongly questioned by virtually all organs of the State who participated in the evaluation, both so the Environment Minister Ana Lya Uriarte said that this is not the height of the systemwhich reiterated in June this year. The successful international experiences of development of special interest tourism seminar will be held the day Tuesday 29 and Wednesday, September 30 in the regional capital, and is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Coyhaique, Servitur Patagonia and the Chamber of tourism of Cochrane, and funded primarily by the electric. The professional, who was part of the team that coordinated delivery of technical observations by the CDP to the EIA of HidroAysen, indicated that there are many examples on which the company is not responsible. One of them is not determined, reach reservoirs to be constructed, any subsequent environmental, social or economic impact. This means that it would be transferring responsibility for mitigation at the State or municipal governments, in the background people, still her idea to leave installed forever these mega infrastructures in our territory with the consequent permanent impact on nature of Aysen tourism. He further noted that it is a blatant ignorance seeking to circumscribe the impacts during the construction phase to the Capitan Prat province in the study not taking charge that is It would affect the image of nature that moves in the region and the country, and the area of Carretera Austral from Balmaceda to the South, whereas the high traffic of buses with workers and machinery during the tourist season. . .