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John Bartlett in Santiago

Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world

a person looks at a clear starry sky
A clear night at the Valle de La Luna in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Photograph: Bryan Toro/Alamy

The scientific community is celebrating the cancellation of a project which would have threatened the clearest skies in the world in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

The proposed $10bn, 3,000-hectare green hydrogen and ammonia production facility, known as INNA, included a port, transport links to the coast and three solar power plants, and had been under evaluation by Chile’s environmental regulator for almost a year.

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