wiredinUSA December 2011

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Fatality during w i n d protest

Oaxaca

The man, Reynaldo Ordaz, was among wind plant construction workers driving through a roadblock established by demonstrators. He was allegedly shot, though it is not yet clear by whom. Local press reports say that the protest against the 90MW Piedra Larga I wind project (a development by Spanish renewables group Renovalia Energy through local affiliate Demex) also left over 20 demonstrators injured, some seriously. Reports cited the Union of Indigenous Communities (UCI) as the leaders of the protest. Piedra Larga 1 is the country’s biggest wind project. Amnesty International has previously condemned an earlier attack on protesters, when around 50 plant development workers forced entry and threatened at least two opponents. The incidents illustrate complaints made to Amnesty International by the indigenous Zapaoteca community that wind plant construction in the area “is taking place without their free, prior and informed consent, in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”

A man was killed during a demonstration against wind plant construction in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

wiredInUSA - December 2011

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