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Costa Rica offers big spend in return from mega plant

Friday, August 19, 2011


\ Improvements by road access, better facilities from schooling energy and an aqueduct.\ \ These are just a small range of benefits that Costa Rica’s state electricity company, the ICE, wants to offer the Térraba indigenous tribe.\ \ With these offerings, the ICE hopes to persuade the tribe to allow the company to build the Diquís hydro dam.\ \ Diquís wukk be the biggest power plant in Central America, with 630 megawatts of power and a $2 billion investment.\ \ Original source (in Spanish): La República\ \ \ \ \ \