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Arauco’s Valdivia biomass power station: carbon emissions and conflicts with indigenous communities in Chile

Author: Environmental Paper Network, Colectivo VientoSur, Global Forest Coalition

Date: 2021

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Language: English

Type of resource: Report

Topics: Global South

Increasingly around the world pulp and paper mills are installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration units to take advantage of strong support and incentives for producing electricity from burning wood.

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