They claimed that the industry would pollute the Uruguay River, the natural border between Uruguay and Argentina, and harm the local tourism industry.

他们声称，纸浆工业会对乌拉圭与阿根廷之间的天然边界乌拉圭河(Uruguay River)造成污染，而且还会损害当地的旅游业。

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URUGUAY, lying just across the muddy waters of the River Plate from Argentina, has been fated in recent decades both to be buffeted by, and to benefit from, its big neighbour’s secular instability.

乌拉圭,与阿根廷隔着混浊的拉普拉塔河而相望。 这个国家在最近的一、二十年里，不是受到他的巨人邻居社会经济长期不稳的冲击就是受益于其中。

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Thus there seems little danger of Uruguay becoming a miniature version of Hugo chavez's Venezuela on the River Plate.

这样一来，要使乌拉圭成为在拉普拉塔河畔Hugo chavez的委内瑞拉缩小版，似乎危险少了很多。

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That is one reason why in April Metsa-Botnia, a Finnish company, began building a cellulose plant on the Uruguay River bordering Argentina.

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The Finnish company Botnia, which is building the factory on the bank of the Uruguay River that separates the two countries, says it will be perfectly safe.

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Argentina lodged a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2006, arguing that Uruguay had broken the terms of a 1975 treaty regulating the use of the River Uruguay which forms the border between them.

BBC: Paper mill in Uruguay - file photo