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Vía Verde project

Index Vía Verde project

The Vía Verde project (English: Green Way project), also known as Gasoducto del Norte (English: Northern Gas Pipeline), was a pipeline to supply natural gas to northern Puerto Rico proposed by the administration of Governor Luis Fortuño. [1]

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Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Adjuntas is a small mountainside municipality in Puerto Rico located central midwest of the island on the Cordillera Central, north of Yauco, Guayanilla and Peñuelas; southeast of Utuado; east of Lares and Yauco; and west of Ponce.

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Aníbal Acevedo Vilá

Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá (born 13 February 1962) is an American politician and lawyer.

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Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo is a municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico (U.S.), on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Barceloneta, Puerto Rico

Barceloneta (Little Barcelona) is a municipality in Puerto Rico and is located in the north region, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Florida, east of Arecibo and west of Manati.

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Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Bayamón is a municipality of Puerto Rico located on the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas and Comerío; south of Toa Baja and Cataño; west of Guaynabo; and east of Toa Alta and Naranjito. Bayamón is spread over 11 wards and Bayamón Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Bill McKibben

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." Environmental Encyclopedia.

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Cambalache State Forest

Cambalache State Forest is a state forest reserve on the island of Puerto Rico.

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Campsite

A campsite or camping pitch is a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area.

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Casa Pueblo

Casa Pueblo is a non-profit environmental watchdog community-based organization in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, headed by Alexis Massol-González, a civil engineer and winner of the 2002 Goldman Environmental Prize.

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Castillo San Felipe del Morro

Castillo San Felipe del Morro also known as Fuerte San Felipe del Morro or Castillo del Morro, is a 16th-century citadel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Cataño, Puerto Rico

Cataño is a municipality located on northern coast of Puerto Rico (U.S.) bordering the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent to the north and east by San Juan; north of Bayamón and Guaynabo; east of Toa Baja and west of Guaynabo and is part of the San Juan Metropolitan Area.

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Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico)

Cordillera Central (English: Central Mountains range), is the main mountain range in Puerto Rico.

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Demonstration (protest)

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.

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Directional drilling

Directional drilling (or slant drilling) is the practice of drilling non-vertical wells.

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Dorado, Puerto Rico

Dorado (Golden) is a town and municipality in the northern coast of Puerto Rico (U.S.), west of San Juan and is located in the northern region of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Toa Alta, east of Vega Alta, and west of Toa Baja.

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Earthjustice

Earthjustice (originally Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) is a non-profit public interest organization based in the United States dedicated to litigating environmental issues.

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EcoEléctrica

EcoEléctrica is a Puerto Rican energy corporation headquartered in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico.

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Engineering officer (ship)

Ship (or marine) Engineering Officers or, simply, Ship Engineers are responsible for operating and maintaining the propulsion plants and support systems on board crew, passengers and cargo seafaring vesselsWise Geek: or other watercraft.

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Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.

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Governor of Puerto Rico

The governor of Puerto Rico is the head of government of Puerto Rico and, by its nature, constitutes the executive branch of the government of the island.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

Guayanilla is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in southern coast of the island, bordering the Caribbean Sea, south of Adjuntas, east of Yauco; and west of Peñuelas and about west of Ponce.

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Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Guaynabo is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico (US), located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas, south of Cataño, east of Bayamón, and west of San Juan.

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Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011.

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Ken Salazar

Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.

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Keystone Pipeline

The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and now owned solely by TransCanada Corporation.

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Kilowatt hour

The kilowatt hour (symbol kWh, kW⋅h or kW h) is a unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules.

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La Fortaleza

La Fortaleza (The Fortress) is the official residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico.

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Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez

Lawrence N. "Larry" Seilhamer Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican politician and member of the Senate of Puerto Rico since January 7, 2009.

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List of rivers of Puerto Rico

List of rivers in Puerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then by name.

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Luis Fortuño

Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset (born 31 October 1960) is an American politician who served as the tenth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America, and as president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (PNP) until 2013, served as president of the Council of State Governments during 2012 and served as president of the Southern Governors Association from 2011 to 2012.

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Luis Gutiérrez

Luis Vicente Gutiérrez (born December 10, 1953) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 1993.

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Manatí, Puerto Rico

Manatí (Manatee) is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.) on the northern coast, north of Morovis and Ciales; east of Florida and Barceloneta; and west of Vega Baja.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico

The municipalities of Puerto Rico number seventy-eight incorporated towns and cities.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)

The New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP or NPP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates for the island to become a state of the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Old San Juan

Old San Juan (Viejo San Juan) is a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, located on the Isleta de San Juan.

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Orwellian

"Orwellian" is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

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Peñuelas, Puerto Rico

Peñuelas is a municipality in Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the southern coast of the island, south of Adjuntas, east of Guayanilla, west of Ponce and north of the Caribbean Sea.

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Pedro Rosselló

Pedro Juan Rosselló González, (born April 5, 1944) is an American physician and politician who served as the seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001.

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Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico.

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Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)

The Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-government.

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Puerto Rican nightjar

The Puerto Rican nightjar or Puerto Rican Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus noctitherus) is a bird in the nightjar family found in the coastal dry scrub forests in localized areas of southwestern Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Puerto Rico Daily Sun

Puerto Rico Daily Sun is the island's only daily English-language newspaper.

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) —Spanish: Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE)— is an electric power company and the government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico responsible for electricity generation, power distribution, and power transmission on the island.

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Puerto Rico Highway 10

Puerto Rico Highway 10 (PR-10) is a major highway in Puerto Rico.

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Rafael Hernández Colón

Rafael Hernández Colón (born October 24, 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the fourth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1977 and as the sixth Governor of Puerto Rico from 1985 to 1993 for a total of three terms.

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Salinas, Puerto Rico

Salinas (Salines) is a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the southern coast of the island, south of Aibonito and Cayey; southeast of Coamo, east of Santa Isabel; and west of Guayama.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Senate of Puerto Rico

The Senate of Puerto Rico (Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Sila María Calderón

Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) is an American politician, businesswoman, and philanthropist who served as the eighth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005.

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Skanska

Skanska AB is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden.

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Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

Toa Baja is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the northern coast, north of Toa Alta and Bayamón; east of Dorado; and west of Cataño.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.

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University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) in Spanish (also referred to as Colegio and CAAM in allusion to its former name), is a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant state university located in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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University of Puerto Rico at Utuado

The University of Puerto Rico at Utuado (UPRU or UPR-Utuado) is a state university located in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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Utuado, Puerto Rico

Utuado is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central mountainous region of the island known as La Cordillera Central.

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Vega Alta, Puerto Rico

Vega Alta (Upper Riverplain) is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.). Vega Alta is located on the northern coast of the island, north of Morovis and Corozal; east of Vega Baja; and west of Dorado with an area of.

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Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

Vega Baja (Lower Riverplain) is a municipality in north central Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the northern coast, north of Morovis; east of Manatí; and west of Vega Alta.

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WAPA-TV

WAPA-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 27), is an independent television station licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vía_Verde_project

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