The conflict with the Indians in check Terra has the mega hydroelectric The Diquís.

The project of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) requires 900 hectares of indigenous lands not inhabited, but are inalienable indigenous rights as protected by national law of 1977 and Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization.

The first claim against the ICE came after occupying 20 hectares without first consulting the people Terraba, located in Buenos Aires de Puntarenas.

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The future of hydroelectric mega ICE intends to build in the river basin Térraba depend on the generosity of the Costa Rican government with the people of the south.

The Diquís, the greatest constructive work in the history of the country, with 650 megawatts of installed capacity, is key to ensuring the power supply from November 2018.

Its construction will forever change the lives of the inhabitants of 10 communities will be resettled, partly or wholly, elsewhere.

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Generating electricity from coal is the alternative proposed by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) he does not develop the hydroelectric project in the southern Diquís.

"If we are going to have a complex situation from the standpoint of energy for the 600 megawatts that will be needed to the system, the choice is coal," said the official.

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Rome. EFE The renewable energy company Enel Green Power, a subsidiary of Italian energy group Enel has begun building a new hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica, with a capacity of 50 megawatts (MW), the company said yesterday in a statement.

The new facility, called Chuco and which lies between the provinces of Alajuela and San José, will produce 219 million kilowatt hours annually, a figure similar to the consumption of more than 81,000 families, which will avoid the emission into the atmosphere more than 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year.

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