Endangered Wave: Santos Del Mar, Chile<\/p>\n
Update April, 2009:
\nThe Los Robles Coal Power Plant proposed for a remote beach near the new Santos del Mar big-wave surf spot in Chile has been indefinitely postponed. This is a great victory for local activists and surfers who are very concerned about the environmental effects that such a mega-project would have on local ecosystems and coastline. A remote Chilean point break would be completely obliterated by the project’s wharf and air and water pollution would devastate the region. However, activists recently won a temporary victory when the energy company AES Gener announced that the project is on hold due to a lack of investors: a combination of activists successfully publicizing the issue against the coal industry and a faltering world economy where such massive development projects are harder and harder for the private sector to finance. Although this is merely a battle won and not a full victory, it gives environmentalists and opposition a chance to regroup forces and continue its successful campaign against the coal plant proposal.<\/p>\n
Surfers for Cetaceans, Save The Waves Coalition, Dave Rastovich and Ramon Navarro team up to protect an endangered surfing area and its ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Southern Chile’s newest big wave surf site, Santos del Mar, and its surrounding coastline would be polluted if plans go ahead to construct a proposed US$1.3 billion dollar coal-fired power plant on the coastline of Chile\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 7th Region…\u00c2\u00a0 Details & Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Endangered Wave: Santos Del Mar, Chile Update April, 2009: The Los Robles Coal Power Plant proposed for a remote beach near the new Santos del Mar big-wave surf spot in Chile has been indefinitely postponed. This is a great victory for local activists and surfers who are very concerned about the environmental effects that such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9217,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}