Nuke electricity is cheap but can be very dangerous, see Fukushima-Dai-ichi now devastated and ruined 4 reactors. Japan have 54 of these marvel technology creating the cheap energy and supplying the 127 million inhabitants people's needs. However, now after the Tsunami decimation so minus -4, Still it leaves 50 of them, imagine, 50 nuke reactors in a smaller than your neighboring Chile by 1/2. I think that instead of building more atomic dependent power plants is non necessary. Instead go for the Hydroelectric generation but in order to accomplish the project it has its colourful sides too. Once again the coimas and favours going around the eloquent Presidenta.
Three Consortiums Bidding for Hydro Plant in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES – Three consortiums are in the running to build a hydroelectric power plant in the southern Argentine province of Santa Cruz, the local press reported Saturday.
Construction of the Condor Cliff-La Barrancosa project on the Santa Cruz River will require investment of some 15 billion pesos ($3.87 billion).
The first of the consortiums bidding on the project is made up of Corporacion America – owned by prominent Argentine businessman Eduardo Eurnekian – and Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona, as well as Brazil’s Camargo Correa.
The second comprises Electroingenieria, Iecsa and Jose Cartellone, while the third consists of Benito Roggio, Esuco and Supercemento.
Construction of the hydroelectric complex, which will add 1,700 MW to the national power grid once completed, has sparked controversy due to speculation the project will be awarded to companies that have close ties to President Cristina Fernandez’s administration.
Leading Argentine daily Clarin, owned by a large media conglomerate that is locked in a bitter feud with the government, reported that two of the consortiums competing for the project have a “fluid relationship” with Fernandez and her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who is also a former governor of Santa Cruz province.
Fernandez has denied that accusation on several occasions and on Friday said that none of the groups participating in the bidding process “went to Olivos to eat,” referring to the presidential residence on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
The president slammed the criticism from Clarin as “immoral” and said it is wrong to stain the reputation of “these business leaders who have invested in the country for decades.”
“There’s no favoritism here for anybody. There are no companies that are either friends or enemies of the government,” she said several days ago.
