Arauco’s Valdivia biomass power station: carbon emissions and conflicts with Indigenous communities in Chile

This case study, produced by Colectivo VientoSur, the Global Forest Coalition and the Environmental Paper Network, assesses the impacts of the Valdivia biomass power plant in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, which is part of the 550,000 ton per year Valdivia pulp mill complex, operated by Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. (Arauco). Download the case study (2.2MB): English | Spanish Increasingly around the world pulp and paper mills are installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration …