ABSTRACT
The Pangue Dam on Chile’s Biobío river may provide the clearest indication yet of how aid for dams aids the rich, of the political nature of this kind of development assistance, and of how far Nordic aid has shifted away from its mandate of helping the poorest of the poor’. From the outset, the 450-megawatt Pangue was to be the first project in a six-dam cascade along the Upper Biobío. It is set to be commissioned in 1997, while the second dam in the series, Ralcowhose existence Nordic donors consistently denied-was underway by 1995.
