Botnia Uruguay-Argentina

Omar Cueva

• Greenpeace’s focus are the environmental issues, and it has become known for its campaigns against whaling, bottom trawling, global warming, ancient forest destruction, nuclear power, and genetic engineering. It has a presence in 42 countries worldwide. The global organization receives its income through the individual contributions of an estimated 2.8 million financial supporters, as well as from grants from charitable foundations.

BOTNIA• Botnia S.A., a subsidiary of Finnish corporation Botnia, is currently

building a large cellulose factory in Fray Bentos to produce bleached eucalyptus pulp. The investment in the project is about 1 billion USD and the factory will directly or indirectly employ more than 8,000 people. The project, however, is not without opponents.

World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC)

• The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's lives. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, DC. It shares the primary objective of all World Bank Group institutions: to improve the quality of the lives of people in its developing member countries.

Environmental Assembly of Gualeguaychú

www.noalapapelera.com.ar

COMPANY RESPONSES

• The company responses were considerably passive and most of the time involving the Uruguayan’s government.

Campaign

Videos

• Argentina y Uruguay después de Botnia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiugB2OjsqE&feature=related

• Campaign “Mensaje para Botnia” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUw1xiYMUrI&feature=related

• Campaign “No a la Contaminacion” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp47oS3bOyw

• Botnia “Pulp mill production process” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZyGZEH8SEY