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Botnia Uruguay-Argentina
Omar Cueva
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• Greenpeace’s focus are the environmental issues, and it has become known for its campaigns against whaling, bottom trawling, global warming, ancient forest destruction, nuclear power, and genetic engineering. It has a presence in 42 countries worldwide. The global organization receives its income through the individual contributions of an estimated 2.8 million financial supporters, as well as from grants from charitable foundations.
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BOTNIA• Botnia S.A., a subsidiary of Finnish corporation Botnia, is currently
building a large cellulose factory in Fray Bentos to produce bleached eucalyptus pulp. The investment in the project is about 1 billion USD and the factory will directly or indirectly employ more than 8,000 people. The project, however, is not without opponents.
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World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's lives. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, DC. It shares the primary objective of all World Bank Group institutions: to improve the quality of the lives of people in its developing member countries.
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Environmental Assembly of Gualeguaychú
www.noalapapelera.com.ar
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COMPANY RESPONSES
• The company responses were considerably passive and most of the time involving the Uruguayan’s government.
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Campaign
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Videos
• Argentina y Uruguay después de Botnia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiugB2OjsqE&feature=related
• Campaign “Mensaje para Botnia” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUw1xiYMUrI&feature=related
• Campaign “No a la Contaminacion” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp47oS3bOyw
• Botnia “Pulp mill production process” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZyGZEH8SEY