Paillaco : trucks for the future wind farm burned to the ground
At dusk on Friday June 16, 2023, in the Chilean commune of Paillaco (Los Ríos region), a small hooded and armed group broke into the construction site of a wind farm. After neutralizing the guards, they set fire to the 14 cement-trucks and a front-end loader on site.
The future Caman wind farm, where the multinational Mainstream Renewable Power (with Norwegian, Japanese and Irish capital) intends to build no less than 44 industrial wind turbines with a capacity of 150 Megawatts in Mapuche territory, had already suffered an incendiary attack on January 16, when the first truck went up in smoke. In August 2022, in the municipality of Angol (La Araucanía region), another construction site for an industrial wind farm also saw its machinery go up in smoke. And in July 2022, in the municipality of Arauco (Bío Bío region), the two technical maintenance buildings of a wind farm that is operational went up in flames.
On June 18, the Órgano de Resistencia Territorial (ORT) Williche Millalikan, a member of CAM (Coordinadora Arauco Malleco), claimed responsibility for the destruction of these fifteen construction machines, stating “Forestry companies and all capitalist investment, out of Wallmapu! In memory of weychafe Toño*, two years after his execution by carabinieri in the service of forestry contractors.”
[Chilean Press Summary, June 20, 2023]
* Note of Actforfree:
Toño (Pablo Marchant’s nickname) was murdered on July 9, 2021 by a carabiniere in Carahue, during an attack on machinery belonging to Forestal Mininco, a subsidiary of cellulose giant CMPC. On the revenge for Toño’s assassination, see:
Chile: Mapuche zone ignites after the murder of Pablo Marchant, July 13, 2021 / Chile: a fiery July in the Mapuche territories, July 19, 2022
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