ísesqueentraráDanielle Desjardins, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada based in Winnipeg, told the BBC that the forecast for both provinces is not promising.
ísesqueentrará"For us it's been very difficult to grow, because we have too many regulations, and we have too many conflicts regarding the use of the sea," he says. "What we need is to define a long-term strategy regarding salmon farming."ísesqueentraráMuch of the conflict concerns the locations of many of the fish farms, which critics say are highly polluting.
ísesqueentraráMore specifically, there are 408 salmon farming concessions – licenses granted by the government that allow a company to operate a salmon farm in a specific area – within supposedly environmentally protected areas in Chile.ísesqueentraráThese include 294 in national reserves, where limited commercial use of natural resourcesísesqueentraráAnd 29 in the more strictly controlled national parks, where business operations are officially not supposed to be permitted.
ísesqueentraráFlavia Liberona is the executive director of Terram, a foundation that promotes sustainable development. In her hot and sticky office in an old building in the centre of Santiago she describes an environmental campaign that she's part of – Salvemos La Patagonia or Save Patagonia.ísesqueentraráIt wants to protect the natural habitat of the entire Chilean Patagonia region. This vast geographic area starts north of Puerto Montt and then extends all the way down to the very base of the country. And it is where most of the salmon farms are located, in its many fjords.
ísesqueentrará"We want the salmon farms to stop operating in the national parks and national reserves," says Ms Liberona.
ísesqueentrará"The salmon farming causes various environmental problems. One is that the fish are kept in cages and fed with pellets.ísesqueentraráRussian estimates say gas exports to Europe
ísesqueentraráin 2024, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports reaching record levels. Currently, half of Russia's LNG exports go the EU, CREA says.ísesqueentraráThe EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, says the alliance has not imposed "the strongest sanctions" on Russian oil and gas because some member states fear an escalation in the conflict and because buying them is "cheaper in the short term".
ísesqueentraráLNG imports have not been included in the latest, 17th package of sanctions on Russia approved by the EU, butísesqueentrarátowards ending all Russian gas imports by the end of 2027.