Wild should wild remain.

HidroAysén is owned by a corporation which is a joint venture between Endesa (a subsidiary of Italian conglomerate ENEL), with a 51% stake and by Colbún S.A. which owns the other 49%.[2]

The dams were approved on May 9, 2011 under the government of President Sebastián Piñera.[3] The decision was made by eleven counselors on a committee. Ten voted in favor, with one abstention.[4] Twenty-seven days earlier the Foreign Investment Committee was already aware of the decision ahead of time.[5] The transmission line is yet to be approved.[citation needed] If completed these companies would own 80% of the Chilean energy market together establishing a duopoly.[6] The project was placed on hold in early June 2012 due to protests.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HidroAys%C3%A9n

Twenty-seven days earlier the Foreign Investment Committee was already aware of the decision ahead of time........

Thank you for adding some depth here.

It is a deeply held belief that Patagonia should be left as it is, as the Spaghetti Monster intended it! It is breathtaking, and also the same area where they've discovered so many wildly ancient dinosaur and other fossils, a truly incredible, wonderful place.

We lose too much when we dam up the wild rivers.

The story _Hothouse_ by Brian Aldiss, which I read when I was approx. 12 yrs old and which remains forever imprinted on my imagination.

I have no clue about the plausibility of the physics but _Hothouse_ is the story of Earth's end times according as entropy I guess, when the Sun is way older and natural gravitational/momentum forces have put the Moon in a geostatic orbit around the Earth, and like the Moon does today w.r.t. Earth, Earth always faces one way to the Sun. Aldiss imagines the habitable part of the planet to be a hothouse and where life has evolved accordingly (at least insomuch as required to tell his tale), and that there have evolved giant spiders that spin webs between the Earth and the Moon. The humans, the heroes of the story, have regressed technologically and in all such ways, and they live in a tree, the single tree that dominates the entire habitable portion of the planet. The story is an adventure tale of wonder for youth as it follows the young heroes (there are no "elders&quot of one clan.

Chile rejects $8 billion HidroAysen dam in Patagonia
Luis Andres Henao, The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:14PM EDT

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's government rejected an $8 billion proposal to dam Patagonian rivers to meet the country's growing energy demands, handing a victory to environmentalists who praised Tuesday's ruling as a landmark moment.

A ministerial commission rejected the HidroAysen plan, which would have tamed two of the world's wildest rivers and built more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) of power lines to supply energy to central Chile.

After a three-hour meeting, Chile's ministers of agriculture, energy, mining, economy and health voted unanimously to reject the project. The committee "decided to side with complaints presented by the community," Environment Minister Pablo Badenier told reporters. "As of now, the hydroelectric project has been rejected."

The project would have built five dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Aysen, a mostly roadless region of southern Patagonia where rainfall is nearly constant and rivers plunge from Andean glaciers to the Pacific Ocean through green valleys and fjords.

Patricio Rodrigo, executive secretary of the Patagonia Defence Council, called the decision "the greatest triumph of the environmental movement in Chile."

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http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/chile-rejects-8-billion-hidroaysen-dam-in-patagonia-1.1862505#ixzz34HmakkXI