U.S. $ 2,111 million in public investment - private for the region
Project environmental assessment focuses
thickness Electricity
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Of the 24 major projects submitted last year to the National Environment Commission for the Bío Bío Region, 85% of the investment is for generation.
By Nello Rolleri Veloso.
Just as the star in regional investment this year was the cellulose, next year promises to be the generation of electricity.
This follows requests for environmental impact assessment submitted to the National Environment Commission (CONAMA) for the Bio-Bio Region in the last year.
The 24 major projects currently in qualification stage or approved a total of 2.111 million dollars of this amount, 1,800 billion, ie 85% of the total, represents the start of power generation, including hydro and thermal, are to petroleum diesel, natural gas or coal.
As was the case some years ago with water projects in the Alto Bio Bio, now coal is the most important energy source, with two thermoelectric complex in the town of Coronel, a Colbun and other Endesa.
The first considers the construction of a power of 700 megawatts of installed capacity in the ranch El Manco, with two units of 350 MW each, a total investment of one billion dollars. The draft presented on September 29 System Environmental Impact Assessment of Conama said that the first unit will enter commercial operation in the first half of 2010 and the second in 2013. It will also include a line of high-voltage transmission of 32 km between Coronel and San Pedro de la Paz.
The second coal-fired generation project is the expansion of coal-fired Bocamina of Endesa, also Colonel, with an investment of 460 million dollars. Bocamina currently has an installed capacity of 128 MW. The project is to build and commission a second 350 MW generating unit. To reduce the gaseous emissions at both plants are incorporated into a bag filter, which will reduce by 98%.
thermoelectric project also contains the central "Santa Lidia" in Cabrero, investing $ 175 million. This is a power of 360 MW in two stages: the first diesel and the second natural gas. All projects are in the qualification stage. The Journal
* SOUTH, Wednesday October 11, 2006
U.S. $ 1.493 million
Coronel, such as in attracting investment
For the Chamber of Production and Commerce of Conception attitude coronelino municipality should be imitated in the area.
Colonel
The Municipality of attitude has been "positive and friendly" industrial projects, which explains the interest in investing there.
This was stated yesterday the manager of the Chamber of Production and Commerce of Conception, Leoncio Toro Araya.
The two coal-fired power plants to be built by Endesa and Colbun lead to the former mining community to lead the regional figures.
is Colbún projects (U.S. $ 1,000 million), Boca-mine II of Endesa (U.S. $ 460 million) which account for the environmental assessment CONAMA construction of pier south of Puerto de Coronel (U.S. $ 25 million) and expansion of the Georgia Pacific plant resins (U.S. $ 8.5 million). Leoncio Toro
For this willingness is very natural qualities that have the territory of Colonel, you have the land necessary to build new industries. This potential exists in other communities as Concepción, San Pedro de la Paz or Chigwell, where land use is much more restricted for reasons of planning or environment.
The company representative added that not enough, however, with the land, but the attitude of the municipality is key. Asked to observe what happens in Talcahuano, where more than the absence of disease Portus ESWL Mayor, the Municipal Port Works - in his opinion, did not provide industrial investment and on the contrary, several companies have wanted to "migrate", as happened with the South Pacific Fisheries Korp, who moved its facilities from Talcahuano to Coronel.
The "takeoff" of Colonel in the CORFO also surprised that in his "information system investment projects for 2005-2015 had identified 42 projects for this community, but with a total investment of only $ 193 million . Cadastre
This has not been updated this year, leading Hualpén appeared in the province of Concepción, with 13 projects and total investment of 1,481 million dollars, followed by Concepcion with 85 projects and 1,445 million dollars.
"not enough" The mayor
René Carvajal Zúñiga is very good news for communities that have occurred in recent months, however, warns that not enough for the 12.4% unemployment that the community, according to latest figures from INE.
consulted by the "formula" that has allowed these results show to attract investment, Carvajal says that this is a process that has evolved over the past ten years, which has allowed numerous initiatives to flourish.
However, Carvajal warns that direct employment of the power plants in the operation stage shall not exceed 300 employees, but expects that its construction (stage) extends for about five or six years, which would have nearly thousand persons employed. Journal
* SOUTH. Thursday October 12, 2006
Ongoing Projects Regional Investment
high inequality replica
Cadastre Conama Corfo and studies show that new investments are concentrated in Greater Concepción, while poorer communities have almost no projects .
By Nello Rolleri V.
High levels of inequality that show the 54 municipalities in the Bío Bío region will not diminish over the next decade, but is likely to remain the same or even increase.
It can be seen by comparing the projects environmental assessment stage of CONAMA, the Investment Projects Survey 2005-2015 conducted by CORFO, and the study "The trajectory of human development in the communes of Chile (1994 - 2003), "presented this year by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP).
According to the UNDP in the region of Bío three communes that show levels "very high" human development index (HDI): Concepción, San Pedro de la Paz and Chigwell, with few results "high": Talcahuano, Chillán, Chillán Viejo, while a vast majority of the remaining districts have levels "low" or "very low."
Among the latter there are eight districts that are among the less developed the country: Portezuelo Yumbel, Quirihue Quillón, Ránquil, Tirúa, Ninhue and Trehuaco.
In reviewing projects under the "qualified" CONAMA is observed that the most important (more than one million dollars) is concentrated in the towns of Coronel, Talcahuano, Hualpén, Concepción, Chillán and Los Angeles, all communes are among those with good HR. These initiatives
as thermoelectric Coronel, the expansion of industries and Huachipato Hualpén Enap in Talcahuano.
The same applies to the land Corfo review, eight counties with the lowest development are also those that have fewer investment projects in any stage, with the exception of Ránquil, due to the installation of Forestry and Industrial Complex of Celco Nueva Aldea .
Another exception in the opposite direction is Chillán Viejo, despite having high human development, shows only six investment projects for the next decade, totaling $ 43 million.
Installing infrastructure companies requires
Employers are always looking for opportunities to invest, but to be installed on a commune there are at least five conditions, says Hernan Celis Calonge, second vice president of the Chamber of Industry and Trade Concepcion.
These are: proximity to raw materials, availability of manpower, infrastructure facilities, land planning and environmental feasibility.
Celis said, by way of example, the recent decision to install two coal-fired power plants in Coronel, by Colbún and Endesa, are due to these reasons: it is a port to receive coal, there is a big city close, there are roads and expeditious access, the master plan allows you to install this type of industry and is feasible to obtain the approval of CONAMA.
union leader for the uneven development of the regional territory is a reality, for which notes that the most important thing to correct is that the State should make an effort to improve infrastructure, to allow new activities to fruition.
mentions the case of Colonel would not have been possible without the existing dual carriageway, as the New Forest Complex Hamlet without the Autopista del Itata. Attitude
municipalities' attitude municipalities also matters a lot for employers to make an investment decision, says Hernan Celis, indicates that as there are master plans that allow certain areas of the territory allocated to industrial development or production, it will be feasible to install new businesses and allow the creation of jobs.
These rules should be stable over time, says Celis, and critically mentioned what happened in Talcahuano, in which the new master plan has been more restrictive and has forced some companies to leave the commune, to settle in elsewhere.
Business creation, he adds, also benefits to municipalities that operate as The granting of professional leave, without bureaucracy and slowness of procedures required.
adds that despite the figures, there are signs that new activities developing agro-like chicory and fruit-invigorate rural communities that today are among the poorest in the country. Bases for takeoff
commune
The existence of some communes in the region that remain consistently among the poorest and least developed in Chile led some to question them as examples failed.
To the Minister Eduardo Araya Poblete this should not be evaluated well and highlights the efforts made by the Regional Government by grouping the communes into "territories planning, enabling them to join forces.
Araya recognizes, however, that the productive development tools have proven inadequate in the region for the successful installation of companies.
opinion that employers value more than the availability of these incentives infrastructure, both road and port, to develop their projects and this is essential for the deployment of the most neglected communities.
highlights why projects like the upcoming award of Route 160, between Colonel and Tres Pinos, because he is sure that this double Sidewalk means a very important stimulus for the development of the communes of the province of Arauco, which during the recent winter past suffered serious difficulties.
SOUTH
* Daily, Friday, October 13, 2006 EDITORIAL
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