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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The initiative is embodied in a bill that the executive branch would send to Congress next week.

The proposal seeks to increase electricity generation at about 400 megawatts (MW) over the next six years.

For this expanded production quotas private electricity generators in rural electrification cooperatives and municipal utilities.

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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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