Argentina starts removing solar panels from Chilean border - ETEnergyWorld
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Argentina starts removing solar panels from Chilean border In late April, the Argentine Navy inaugurated a maritime surveillance post on the border with Chile, in the Patagonia region of South America.
Argentina on Monday began removing
solar panels that were installed by accident on the wrong side of its shared
border with
Chile, after a complaint from
Chilean President
Gabriel Boric.
In late April, the Argentine Navy inaugurated a maritime surveillance post on the border with Chile, in the Patagonia region of South America.
But the solar panels, which provide
energy to that military unit, were set up on the Chilean side of the frontier.
In a statement, the Argentine Navy acknowledged the
mistake and said it had "transferred personnel and means to begin the
removal of a solar panel installed in the territory of the sister republic of Chile, north of the Island of Tierra del Fuego."
Earlier in the day, Boric demanded that the panels be removed or Chile itself would do it.
"Borders are not something that can be ambiguous. It is a basic principle of respect between countries and therefore they must remove those solar panels as soon as possible or we are going to do it," Boric told reporters during a visit to Paris.
Chile and Argentina share a border of about 5,000 kilometers (more than 3,000 miles).
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