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.
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states’ measures have tempered down, many seem keen to move on. Not everyone though. Some might consider it pesky but the question of proximity during those periods of lockdowns and curfews is still pertinent. Fear and repression made it impossible to meet each other, paralysing not only social struggles but social life itself. During the pandemic, the state made abundant use of (scientific) experts and the media to lay claim to rationality. Everything that diverged from the dominant discourse was labelled as irrational and quashed. Following suit with these binaries is to enter a game which is not ours to play and in which we have nothing to gain.
