[from El Tribuno, 4 July 2011]
Almost no gas at Salta province gas stations (Casi no queda nafta en las estaciones de la provincia)
At many stations there is no gas at all. Others sell only a limited number of liters per vehicle (En muchas expendodores la falta es total. En otras se decidió vender con cupos limitados de litros por vehículo)
[Click here for a blog post in English about the issue]
[David says, "It happens every couple of years... Some trick the gas companies play to make a few extra bucks. It will blow over in a few days."]
Larguísimas filas (long lines) de autos y la paciencia que se va acabando tras un problema que se acentuó en las últimas semanas. Ese es el panorama que describe el desabastecimiento de combustible en la provincia. Falta nafta y ahora, en algunas estaciones de servicio, también está empezando a escasear gas.
Los conductores deben recorrer toda la ciudad para poder cargar nafta y continuar circulando con sus vehículos. El problema del gas aún no está tan acentuado. Ayer se estaba vendiendo casi con normalidad, salvo en algunas estaciones en las que había baja presión, motivo por el cual debió suspenderse la carga.
El Tribuno realizó una recorrida por las estaciones de servicio de distintos puntos de la ciudad.
En las que se estaba cargando nafta había gran cantidad de conductores esperando en sus autos para poder aprovisionarse de este combustible.
Las largas colas que hacía la gente se traducían en varias horas de espera que, en muchos casos, desataron enojos y peleas entre los clientes.
En algunas estaciones se vendió nafta de manera restringida, con cupos de $50 y, en otras, de hasta $100 por vehículo. Otra modalidad fue la restricción de la venta por turnos.
Los trabajadores de muchas de las estaciones de servicio que no contaban con el suministro de combustible dijeron ayer que estaban a la espera de la llegada de los camiones cisterna, por lo que hoy podrían estar ya brindando su servicio de manera totalmente normal.
“El tema estuvo muy complicado el fin de semana. Lo que pasa es que los camiones traen menos cantidad de nafta que antes y casi no tienen común, sólo súper y premium. Los clientes están obligados a comprar las naftas más caras y encima deben armarse de paciencia para hacerlo. Ahora, para colmo, también hay problemas con el gas, es realmente preocupante”, remarcó un empleado de YPF.
¿Dónde cargar?
Ayer estaban cargando nafta, gas y gasoil con normalidad en la YPF de Pellegrini y Coronel Vidt, en la Esso de avenida Bolivia y Miguel Ortiz, en La Rotonda de Limache frente al hipermercado Libertad, en la YPF de avenida Kennedy, en la YPF de Mitre y Rivadavia y en la YPF de Independencia 775. Los trabajadores de esas estaciones de servicio manifestaron que se prevé que hoy ya esté normalizada la situación de provisión de combustible.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
solar stoves
[from El Tribuno Salta, 30 May 2011]
Solar Stoves for Neighbors Living Off the Grid
Beginning in June, construction will be by carried out by a cooperative backed by UNSA's Inenco (National University of Salta's Institute of Investigation into Non-Conventional Energy)
Una cooperativa salteña construirá cocinas solares, mejoradas a leña y parabólicas familiares, artefactos que en una primera etapa serán distribuidos en Centros Integradores Comunitarios (CIC) de la ciudad, del Noa, Nea y la región de Cuyo. El proyecto se pondrá en marcha en junio y la cooperativa 26 de Agosto será la responsable, previa capacitación que sus integrantes recibirán del Instituto de Investigación de Energías no Convencionales (Inenco) de la Universidad Nacional de Salta (Unsa).
Por medio de un convenio entre Desarrollo Social de la Nación y la comuna capitalina, para la transferencia tecnológica, se construirán 55 hornos solares Cocitamb, 55 hornos mejorados a leña y solares parabólicas familiares. La cooperativa 26 de Agosto fabricará los hornos que primero serán exhibidos en los CIC de la ciudad; todos recibirán uno en donación.
De acuerdo al proyecto, la cooperativa luego deberá autofinanciarse con la venta de hornos que, se estima, podrían costar entre $800 y $900. La secretaria de Gobierno del municipio, Gisella Moreno, informó que “con este convenio se generará empleo genuino para cooperativas, trabajo que además colaborará con ambiente, con energías renovables”, ya que los hornos solares no ocupan gas y se reduce el consumo de leña.
La capacitación
El Inenco tiene experiencia en la construcción de cocinas solares, equipadas con hornos o con ollas. Cada cocina con horno tiene -por ejemplo- capacidad para cocinar hasta 4 kilos de pan, por cada hora y media. El técnico del Inenco, responsable de la capacitación de los cooperativistas, Ricardo Caso, explicó a El Tribuno que la formación se extenderá unos 10 días. “Esta institución investiga los diseños y los transfiere al medio para su fabricación y utilización”, comentó el especialista. Una persona con conocimiento en la construcción de hornos solares puede realizar uno en tres días: “En la capacitación haremos 5, luego la cooperativa producirá el resto”, dijo.
Un horno solar levanta entre 120 y 140 grados de temperatura; las cocinas mejoradas a leña, se harán en la segunda etapa, se utilizan con ese producto, pero se las prepara para disminuir el consumo, y la parabólica familiar puede levantar más de 200 grados de temperatura y se puede hasta freír alimentos.
Los fondos para el proyecto son aportados por el organismo nacional y alcanzan a $178.558.
Solar Stoves for Neighbors Living Off the Grid
Beginning in June, construction will be by carried out by a cooperative backed by UNSA's Inenco (National University of Salta's Institute of Investigation into Non-Conventional Energy)
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Solar Cooking in San Antonio de los Cobres |
Una cooperativa salteña construirá cocinas solares, mejoradas a leña y parabólicas familiares, artefactos que en una primera etapa serán distribuidos en Centros Integradores Comunitarios (CIC) de la ciudad, del Noa, Nea y la región de Cuyo. El proyecto se pondrá en marcha en junio y la cooperativa 26 de Agosto será la responsable, previa capacitación que sus integrantes recibirán del Instituto de Investigación de Energías no Convencionales (Inenco) de la Universidad Nacional de Salta (Unsa).
Por medio de un convenio entre Desarrollo Social de la Nación y la comuna capitalina, para la transferencia tecnológica, se construirán 55 hornos solares Cocitamb, 55 hornos mejorados a leña y solares parabólicas familiares. La cooperativa 26 de Agosto fabricará los hornos que primero serán exhibidos en los CIC de la ciudad; todos recibirán uno en donación.
De acuerdo al proyecto, la cooperativa luego deberá autofinanciarse con la venta de hornos que, se estima, podrían costar entre $800 y $900. La secretaria de Gobierno del municipio, Gisella Moreno, informó que “con este convenio se generará empleo genuino para cooperativas, trabajo que además colaborará con ambiente, con energías renovables”, ya que los hornos solares no ocupan gas y se reduce el consumo de leña.
La capacitación
El Inenco tiene experiencia en la construcción de cocinas solares, equipadas con hornos o con ollas. Cada cocina con horno tiene -por ejemplo- capacidad para cocinar hasta 4 kilos de pan, por cada hora y media. El técnico del Inenco, responsable de la capacitación de los cooperativistas, Ricardo Caso, explicó a El Tribuno que la formación se extenderá unos 10 días. “Esta institución investiga los diseños y los transfiere al medio para su fabricación y utilización”, comentó el especialista. Una persona con conocimiento en la construcción de hornos solares puede realizar uno en tres días: “En la capacitación haremos 5, luego la cooperativa producirá el resto”, dijo.
Un horno solar levanta entre 120 y 140 grados de temperatura; las cocinas mejoradas a leña, se harán en la segunda etapa, se utilizan con ese producto, pero se las prepara para disminuir el consumo, y la parabólica familiar puede levantar más de 200 grados de temperatura y se puede hasta freír alimentos.
Los fondos para el proyecto son aportados por el organismo nacional y alcanzan a $178.558.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
land or power?
[from Merco Press, 10 May 2011]
Chilean protestors clash with police as regulators approve five-dam project in Patagonia
Chile approved on Monday the construction of a hydroelectric project that would flood Patagonian valleys and become the country’s biggest power generator, sparking violent protests.
The HidroAysen project would generate 35% of Chile’s current power consumption.
Police fired water cannons at demonstrators outside the building in the city of Coyhaique where 11 of the 12 members of an environment commission voted in favour of the HidroAysen project that Santiago-based Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA and Colbun SA (COLBUN) want to build.
HidroAysen’s five dams would flood nearly 6,000 hectares of land and require a 1,900 kilometre transmission line to feed the central grid that supplies Santiago and surrounding cities as well as copper mines owned by Codelco and Anglo American Plc. The government of President Sebastian Piñera says Chile needs more hydroelectric and coal- fired plants to meet demand that will double in the next decade and reduce power costs that are the highest in the region.
“We have to get that energy somewhere, independent of what the project is, because energy today is twice as expensive as in other Latin American countries,” Ena Von Baer, the government’s spokeswoman, told reporters in Santiago. “We want to be a developed country and to do that we need energy, especially cheap energy for the poor.
Read more here.
Also, if you haven't already, read Fred Pearce's When the Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century to learn why new dams anywhere in the world might be a bad idea.
Read about the deficiencies of the environmental impact studies, including insufficient mapping, no studies on productive soils, no mapping to identify productive soils in areas that would be impacted, potential seismic risks, hydrological risk events, no information on relocation of people, superficial description of worker camps, no studies on increases in vehicular traffic, including extremely large and heavy vehicles and machinery, transportation of material, fuel and hazardous waste, no analysis of public works impacts, violation of protected area laws, impact on fauna & flora, impact on tourism.
Chilean protestors clash with police as regulators approve five-dam project in Patagonia
Chile approved on Monday the construction of a hydroelectric project that would flood Patagonian valleys and become the country’s biggest power generator, sparking violent protests.
The HidroAysen project would generate 35% of Chile’s current power consumption.
Police fired water cannons at demonstrators outside the building in the city of Coyhaique where 11 of the 12 members of an environment commission voted in favour of the HidroAysen project that Santiago-based Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA and Colbun SA (COLBUN) want to build.
HidroAysen’s five dams would flood nearly 6,000 hectares of land and require a 1,900 kilometre transmission line to feed the central grid that supplies Santiago and surrounding cities as well as copper mines owned by Codelco and Anglo American Plc. The government of President Sebastian Piñera says Chile needs more hydroelectric and coal- fired plants to meet demand that will double in the next decade and reduce power costs that are the highest in the region.
“We have to get that energy somewhere, independent of what the project is, because energy today is twice as expensive as in other Latin American countries,” Ena Von Baer, the government’s spokeswoman, told reporters in Santiago. “We want to be a developed country and to do that we need energy, especially cheap energy for the poor.
Read more here.
Also, if you haven't already, read Fred Pearce's When the Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century to learn why new dams anywhere in the world might be a bad idea.
Read about the deficiencies of the environmental impact studies, including insufficient mapping, no studies on productive soils, no mapping to identify productive soils in areas that would be impacted, potential seismic risks, hydrological risk events, no information on relocation of people, superficial description of worker camps, no studies on increases in vehicular traffic, including extremely large and heavy vehicles and machinery, transportation of material, fuel and hazardous waste, no analysis of public works impacts, violation of protected area laws, impact on fauna & flora, impact on tourism.
Monday, January 17, 2011
China likes Tierra del Fuego
[from Latin American Herald Tribune, 17 January 2011]
Chinese Firm to Invest $1 Billion in Southern Argentina
BUENOS AIRES – A Chinese firm announced plans to invest $1 billion to build an agrochemical plant, a thermal power station and a commercial port in the southern Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego.
The president of Chinese firm Tierra del Fuego Energia y Quimica, Fernando Lin, made the announcement Thursday along with executives from Argentina’s Roggio infrastructure and services group, which will be in charge of the civil engineering works, the Argentine Industry Ministry said in a statement.
The Asian company will build an $800 million plant to produce urea – an organic compound widely used in fertilizers and also an important raw material for the chemical industry – at an industrial park in Rio Grande, a city some 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) south of Buenos Aires,
Another $130 million will be allocated for construction of a 50 MW combined-cycle power station that will provide electricity to the plant.
In addition, $70 million will be invested in a commercial port to export a portion of the production.
“The products will be transported via conveyor belt directly from the (company’s) warehouse, helping to reduce costs and “damage to roads and the environment,” the ministry’s statement said.
The Chinese firm, which is 70 percent state-owned, plans for construction to begin in March or April.
“This investment is the result of greater integration with China, which sees our country as a strategic destination for its investment outlays, and will create more value-added for our industry, substitute imports and create hundreds of jobs,” Industry Minister Debora Giorgi said.
Giorgi visited Beijing on Monday and Tuesday for a meeting with Chinese counterpart Chen Deming that was aimed at boosting Argentine exports to the Asian giant.
“Minister Chen Deming and I agreed on the excellent opportunity that Chinese cross-border investment represents and on the opportunities it provides Argentina to add value and substitute imports,” Giorgi said.
Chinese Firm to Invest $1 Billion in Southern Argentina
BUENOS AIRES – A Chinese firm announced plans to invest $1 billion to build an agrochemical plant, a thermal power station and a commercial port in the southern Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego.
The president of Chinese firm Tierra del Fuego Energia y Quimica, Fernando Lin, made the announcement Thursday along with executives from Argentina’s Roggio infrastructure and services group, which will be in charge of the civil engineering works, the Argentine Industry Ministry said in a statement.
The Asian company will build an $800 million plant to produce urea – an organic compound widely used in fertilizers and also an important raw material for the chemical industry – at an industrial park in Rio Grande, a city some 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) south of Buenos Aires,
Another $130 million will be allocated for construction of a 50 MW combined-cycle power station that will provide electricity to the plant.
In addition, $70 million will be invested in a commercial port to export a portion of the production.
“The products will be transported via conveyor belt directly from the (company’s) warehouse, helping to reduce costs and “damage to roads and the environment,” the ministry’s statement said.
The Chinese firm, which is 70 percent state-owned, plans for construction to begin in March or April.
“This investment is the result of greater integration with China, which sees our country as a strategic destination for its investment outlays, and will create more value-added for our industry, substitute imports and create hundreds of jobs,” Industry Minister Debora Giorgi said.
Giorgi visited Beijing on Monday and Tuesday for a meeting with Chinese counterpart Chen Deming that was aimed at boosting Argentine exports to the Asian giant.
“Minister Chen Deming and I agreed on the excellent opportunity that Chinese cross-border investment represents and on the opportunities it provides Argentina to add value and substitute imports,” Giorgi said.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
natural gas discovery
[from Merco Press, December 4, 2010]
Reports that Repsol-YPF have made a major natural gas discovery in Neuquén
Repsol-YPF has made a mega natural gas strike in the Patagonian province of Neuquen which could supply Argentina with energy for the next half century at least according to an online publication, lapoliticaonline.
Neuquen is famous for oil, gas, sheep and fossilized dinosaurs
The official announcement is scheduled to be made next Tuesday by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at a special ceremony in Repsol-YPF headquarters in Buenos Aires.
The online media quotes Mario Cavazzoli, oil expert linked to the operation, saying that “the Neuquen basin has 257 TVF which is equivalent to 6 to 20 times the Loma La Lata deposit when it was started”.
Cavazzoli works for Schlumberger the US company contracted by Repsol-YPF, together with Apache to explore the area where the discovery was done.
Miguel Hassekieff, head of the Hydrocarbons Department from the Energy Secretary, said that once the deposit begins to be exploited, “Argentina has gas for the next century and we can cut off from Bolivian imports”.
However the controversy about the true estimate of reserves will only be unveiled next Tuesday. Apparently last February some tentative primary testing estimated the volume of the deposit in 21 trillion cubic feet which is equivalent to La Lata reservoirs.
Reports that Repsol-YPF have made a major natural gas discovery in Neuquén
Repsol-YPF has made a mega natural gas strike in the Patagonian province of Neuquen which could supply Argentina with energy for the next half century at least according to an online publication, lapoliticaonline.
Neuquen is famous for oil, gas, sheep and fossilized dinosaurs
The official announcement is scheduled to be made next Tuesday by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at a special ceremony in Repsol-YPF headquarters in Buenos Aires.
The online media quotes Mario Cavazzoli, oil expert linked to the operation, saying that “the Neuquen basin has 257 TVF which is equivalent to 6 to 20 times the Loma La Lata deposit when it was started”.
Cavazzoli works for Schlumberger the US company contracted by Repsol-YPF, together with Apache to explore the area where the discovery was done.
Miguel Hassekieff, head of the Hydrocarbons Department from the Energy Secretary, said that once the deposit begins to be exploited, “Argentina has gas for the next century and we can cut off from Bolivian imports”.
However the controversy about the true estimate of reserves will only be unveiled next Tuesday. Apparently last February some tentative primary testing estimated the volume of the deposit in 21 trillion cubic feet which is equivalent to La Lata reservoirs.
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