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At the heart of the province of Corrientes is Ibera nature reserve, where they are located, Unknown to many, Esteros del Ibera in Guarani means "shining waters." With its 13 square miles forms the second largest wetland in the continent, home to a wide variety of flora and fauna.
Ibera Lagoon, located in the beautiful region of the estuaries, is eighty miles from the city of Mercedes, Corrientes an important town known for its livestock production and to be considered the entrance gate of the estuaries.
Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, is the town that brings together people living around the lake. Several inns and guest houses, scattered in the vicinity, complete the picture that makes up a place where biodiversity amazes and captivates those who travel.
Today this place is at serious risk because it wants to extend the power line with an Extra High Tension Line, LEAT, and thus form the third section of the Transmission System associated with hydroelectric Yacyretá. But do not take into account that to carry out the installation of the new towers will have to cross the Esteros de Ibera, more precisely Miriñay River, destroying nearly all the flora and fauna.
The works were designed by the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Office, through the Department of Energy National will be in charge of the company LIMS Lines
Mesopotamian SA The company said the proposed work involves the construction of a leat slate that includes a line of 500 kilovolt (KV) in the transformer (ET) from Rincón de Santa Mary, Ituzaingó Station and Mercedes, both in the province of Corrientes, with a length of 278.20 kilometers, and a trio of 500 KV line between transformative Mercedes station and the Cologne Elia, the latter in province of Entre Rios, a length of 391.29 kilometers.
The length of the new line is approximately 912 kilometers and is composed three partial sections, covering: Rincón de Santa María Mercedes, 278, a second line from Mercedes-Colonia Elia, Entre Rios, 398.8, and the third, from Colonia Elia-Gral Rodriguez, Buenos Aires, 239.7 miles.
To carry out the project across the colony Carlos Pellegrini, the company must LIMS Miriñay River channel to move the pylons that is armed in containers located on rafts still below the bridge of the Ibera lagoon.
not explain why those towers are armed, while the systems installed in previous years, were transferred in blocks to prevent damage to the ecosystem in the region.
"We are powerless," said Claudia Noailles, landlady in Colonia Carlos Pellegrini Sapukay YPA, with respect to the project, and who have made the necessary claims but "was echoed in the governorate."
Noailles said that the inhabitants of the colony feel "surprised by the indifferent attitude of the government with whom he had a good relationship of mutual agreement on the Esteros", adding that they are violating all the rights of Miriñay as seem to forget that "it is a provincial reserve."
In response to concerns about the flora and fauna in danger, the person responsible LIMS company's technical, Mario Alou, emphasized: "The desirability of maintaining both lines as close as possible, because the corridor used by birds and is shocked and could only slightly increase their impact as the construction of a second line nearby. According to studies by PTI, the birds are not migrating to or from outside the area of \u200b\u200bthe lagoon, but inwardly, and said: "The birds have changed their pattern of flight after the installation of the line in Salto Grande, therefore, place separate from the current project would add a second obstacle to the birds, while it would not change their pattern near flight. "
On Miriñay channeling, which consequently will the killing of, among other species, alligators, swamp deer, capybaras, fish and hundreds of birds, Alou argued: "Although from the technical point of view this is not the optimal solution from the environmental point of view the best solution is to bring the two paths, an increase of distance from the existing line with the new, could have serious environmental problem in terms of building new roads and / or prolongation existing ones. "
The project, driven among other things, to promote the growing tourism in the Esteros, provide more lighting for areas, while having its power source, is to "develop" for the convenience of tourists. But is it worth dying for this project that much of the flora and fauna of one of the few natural wonders left to us?.
