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Country has no concrete plans to reduce gas emissions

Costa Rica is far short of goal to become carbon neutral

  • After 4 years, biodiesel is not used or improved public transport system

  • Experts suggest rethinking target and guide the country toward a 'green economy'


Vanessa Loaiza N. and Luis Edo. Diaz This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 05/06/2011 02:45 pm

The lack of concrete plans and efforts to coordinate between institutions threatening the goal that Costa Rica will be carbon neutral by 2021.

Specialists from various sectors agree that the commitment made during the government of Oscar Arias (2006-2010) has good intentions but lacks realistic estimates.

Being carbon neutral means that the country can match its emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) with equal amounts of oxygen and, thus, contribute to not increase the greenhouse effect and climate change.

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Government encourages domestic generation

Mercedes Aguero R. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 16/05/2011


The Government encourages the participation of citizens in the country's energy production. That is the purpose of a directive issued by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) in April.

The document calls on companies in the country's power sector to encourage the development of small-scale generation for own consumption.

These include wind generators, solar panels, biomass and hydropower.

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Diario Extra

  • These are the major demands that make the Government of Costa Rica

INVESTORS CONCERNED FOR HUMAN RESOURCES AND ENERGY COST

Danny Leon
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Special Envoy

Chinchilla and Paul Otellini at the main entrance of Intel Corporation.

San Francisco, California .- The number of professionals in specific areas such as technology and the high cost of electricity are the major concerns of foreign investors that the government intends to bring to the country.

So it was told the president of the Republic, Laura Chinchilla, who yesterday started a series of meetings with different businessmen installed in San Francisco, California, as reported by DAILY EXTRA in yesterday's edition.

"Yes we are concerned that no answer to the number of professionals, this is one of the major challenges of governance, human resource training in specific areas and technology areas," said the President.

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EDITORIAL

The contingency plan

  • The intention of giving the country greater incentives for cogeneration of electricity in the short term is a pragmatic measure, worthy of support

  • The authorities accept the need for a more ambitious plan, embodied in the General Law of Electricity, but recognize the difficulties in achieving


10/05/2011

The Government announced the submission to Congress a contingency plan to meet electricity demand, avoiding blackouts and restrict thermal generation, increasingly expensive and always clean. The move is a sign of pragmatism. The authorities accept the need for a more ambitious plan, embodied in the General Law of Electricity, but recognize the difficulties of achieving it.

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Electricity Plan

Government sends first project opponents

Alvaro Murillo This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   10/05/2011

A draft contingency plans for emergency energy supply made to the Government "premiere" in the delivery yesterday of plans to Congress in his new side, now controlled by opposition parties.

The President Laura Chinchilla signed yesterday Contingency Power Project, which aims to ensure the production of 400 megawatts over the next six years, since the delay suffered by the draft Electricity Law.

The text came to Congress during the regular session, in which the Legislature defined the agenda of projects handled, and the Board (controlled by an alliance of five opposition parties) states in which committees will be studied.

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