Anomalous geyser appeared in Chile on human-induced

Italian researchers GROSS intervene in the natural structure GEYSERS DISTRICT IN CHILE Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Mayor Kalam requires that the geysers in the area had established a national park. The Italian government company Enel has suspended, at least two weeks, the drilling of wells in the area of ??geysers "Tatio" one of the major tourist attractions in the northern part of the country. Now, the Chilean authorities can examine the implications of this intervention into the natural landscape for the environment, the economy of the local tourism industry and the environmental conditions of the local population. Drilling resulted in the fact that the September 12, 2009 at the site of one of the eighty geysers from the well started to break out the water column and a pair of 60-meter height, which is not abated yet. Typically, a fountain geyser has a height of about a meter, and the highest of which reached just six meters in height. The Government of Chile has appointed an investigation into last Thursday, two days after local officials and many concerned citizens have sounded the alarm, accusing the company "Enelz geothermometry del Norte" ("PAU") that because of its drilling and an unprecedented eruption of the geyser. However, company representatives insist that the drilling did not damage nature and that the steam flow is not destructive. Anomalous geyser caused concern among residents of the country and the course of events each day carefully and thoroughly covers all the local media, starting from the date of the accident. Flow of relevant information is in the minds of many people's doubts about the feasibility of various energy projects in the country, which cause or could cause harm to the national heritage. Mayor Kalam Esteban Velasquez, along with groups of experts on the environment, local authorities, a large number of local residents insisted that the Italian company stopped drilling research in the Valley of Geysers immediately. Instead, energy projects, the mayor proposes to intensify the use of these geothermal attractions as a target for foreign and domestic tourism, which, of course, is harmless to the environment. "We've said it many times - said Velasquez - that the investigation of earth formations in such a way no one can guarantee that will not be damaged our geological heritage of incomparable beauty. Any research should go towards the further development of tourism in the area of ??geysers. But, alas, unfortunately for us, it does not, quite the contrary. The consequences of reckless action is very negative and unfortunate. In the event of further drilling implications for the geysers are unpredictable. " Geysers that gush forth every morning, starting with clockwork precision, are situated near the famous among all the tourist district of San Pedro de Atacama. Area is mainly visited by residents near the Atacama Desert is located here. Geysers are inspected every day, thousands of tourists and skeptics fear that the intervention of the energy companies can significantly reduce the spectacle of these amazing geothermal wonders, and some even argue that the geysers are completely cease to exist. Certainly, it is clearly will lead to the ruin of most local travel companies. On Saturday, local residents held a protest march against the implementation of any of geothermal energy projects in the area of ??geysers. Protests led coalition to protect the environment and tourism district of San Pedro de Atacama. Experienced drilling in the area of ??geysers began in April to study the economic prospects of building a geothermal power plant that could meet the growing needs of the country's electricity. On Wednesday a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies, which will discuss the geothermal project of Italian experts from the standpoint of environmental protection and economic terms. The Italian company Enel has already participated in the implementation of the controversial energy projects - we are talking about a huge dam Hydro Eysen in Chilean Patagonia. Energy company "Endeza Speyn, which owns fifty-one percent of the shares of Power Hydro Eysen" while the owner of ninety-two percent of the shares that the company Enel. Joint venture Endeza Spain "with the local power company Kolban", includes five large-scale hydropower plants in southern Patagonia - two along the Baker (the longest river in Chile), and three on the powerful but shorter Pascua River. Clean waterways flowing through the entire Chilean part of Patagonia, for the most part now have a natural and untouched appearance, maintaining a unique and fragile ecosystem. Opponents of the disastrous nature of the steps argue that the huge mnogomillionodollarovy energy project could destroy this ecosystem, not only due to changes in river flows, but also due to inundation of large areas of the desert with new man-made seas. In addition, the project will exacerbate the already existing virtual monopoly of the two companies on the structure of centralized power. At a meeting of civic group Coalition for the preservation of Eysena for Life "was made by her party, Peter Hartmann, who said:" As a project in an area of ??geysers Tatio and Hydro Eysen "would have disastrous consequences for those areas, which are essentially our geological heritage , both in terms of nature, and from a cultural perspective. He called this type of projects are problematic, especially when they are supported by the Government and receive approval of environmental authorities, despite the fact that the cause irreparable damage to nature. "We do not want to Eysene happened the same thing happened in the Geysers Tatio" - said Hartmann. See also: Notes from Chile, September 2009