Letter to the Clean Development Mechanism
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Subject: concern in relation with the Chilean forestry company Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (CELCO)
Dear Sr. or Madamme
Clean Development Mechanism
This letter is to express my concern in relation with the Chilean forestry company Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (CELCO), which is selling carbon credits and so profiting through using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
CELCO’s pulp plants base their operations on pine and eucalyptus tree plantations, which are very contested ones in terms of their consequences on biodiversity and also because the problems they cause on local communities in the south of Chile. Furthermore, CELCO’s pulp plants have caused several ecological disasters.
CELCO is now planning to build a sewage pipeline in the area of Mehuin. That pipeline would discharge sewage from the same pulp plant that caused an ecological disaster at a nature sanctuary in 2004 causing the mass-death of black-necked swans, near the city of Valdivia. Right now, Mapuche Lafkenche indigenous people in the area who have been protesting against the building of the pipeline for many years are being threatened and are even risking their lives in defending their livelihoods and traditional ways of using marine resources that would be contaminated in the case CELCO finally builds such a pipeline.
Within such a context, it is apparent that the possibility of CELCO making profits through the CDM is completely questionable.
This is why I ask for urgent measures from the CDM and an investigation about CELCO’s practices. I specially demand that CELCO stop affecting the Mapuche Lakquence communities in the area of Mehuin and Mississippi immediately.
Best regards,
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To send:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/contact.html .
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