Energy nonsense

The country is preparing to invest $ 200 million in infrastructure for unloading, storage and distribution of bunker on the Pacific coast. The project supplies, partly to the new thermal power plant installed in Montes de Oro, Puntarenas.

The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) has 200 megawatts generated by the plant Puntarenas to increase the country's energy security and warding off the risk of shortages, but the environmental cost of that security is high. The plant will burn 122 million gallons of fossil fuel per year and supply, between December 2010 and October 2011, will require travel 18 180 tankers whose starting point is the Limón port facilities.

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