No to Botnia's Pulp Mill Say Demonstrators

    In a few months right across the Río de la Plata river Botnia, a Finnish pulp company, hopes to begin producing tons and tons of paper in spite of the unceasing protests of citizen groups on the other side of the river in Gualeguaychú, Argentina.

     The waste products will be thrown into the river and the fish and eco-systems in the river, and the Argentine coastline, will inevitably be contaminated, say the protesters. The question is: how much contamination will the mill throw into the river? The company claims it will use the most up-to-date systems of control. That does not reassure most people on the Argentine side, who since the company began building the factory have been blocking bridges, marching and protesting by all means possible. Botnia's smoke stacks are already stretching towards the sky.

    "Down with contamination!" and "long live life" shouted demonstraters on July 30th during a march  to the Finnish embasy in Buenos Aires.

     The governments of Uruguay and Argentina are talking and the case has been taken to the courts, but as one demonstrator said: "money makes the world go round."