Trying to look for something relevant to the discussion in class on Tuesday about environmentalism in Latin America, I stumbled upon an article that revealed to me an interesting conflict going on in the Southern Cone currently. Apparently a Finnish company named Botnia has built a cellulose factory in Uruguay on the border with Argentina. Argentina is claiming that this factory is polluting their waters, while a spokesman for E.U. business in Argentina said as his biggest supporting point, "[E]s una planta que podría ponerse en Europa, con normas de la Unión Europea. Los países europeos no están implantando sus industrias sucias en otras partes del mundo." This basically states that the factory isn't bad because it meets European standards, and European nations never install "dirty industries" in other parts of the world. I find this hard to believe, but it is interesting to see people at least pretending these days that North American and European environmental standards have a place outside their own world.
Article at: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/799718
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