When I lived in Huntsville, AL in the 1970's I remember that there was a paper mill in Rome, GA that, under the right circumstances, could unleash a smell not unlike an old sewer all the way to Huntsville.
While I agree to some extent that Marcela Sanchez does have a point in the way that the Argentine government has handled the efforts of a Finnish company in Uruguay to establish a paper mill on the river that forms the border between Argentina and Uruguay, I have to disagree with this point:
[Daniel] Taillant [executive director of the Argentine Center for Human Rights and Environment] and other Argentine observers agree that the dispute could have been averted had Argentine politicians done more than look the other way as Uruguay undertook an aggressive tree-planting program on its side of the river for two decades. That Uruguay was going to establish a paper mill at some point should have been obvious, says Gustavo Lazzari, director of the Atlas 1853 Foundation, a conservative group based in Buenos Aires.
If you'll forgive the analogy, it takes two to tango here. Uruguay should have been up front about its intentions as well. It's time for both countries to let cooler heads prevail. If, as the article indicates, Uruguay is willing to let both countries monitor the mill's environmental impact, it certainly seems like a reasonable solution. I suspect, however, there are other issues involved here on Argentina's side - or at least Sanchez is trying to give that impression. We'll have to see how this plays out.
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