The firm claims that the investment will create thousands of jobs in a country with a growing unemployment problem but environmentalists are concerned about the plant’s effects on the river. Finnish company UPM said Tuesday it will go ahead with plans to invest more than $3 billion to build a eucalyptus pulp plant in Uruguay. The plant will begin functioning in the second semester of 2022 and some construction is set to begin “immediately.” The company will spend USD 2.7 billion to set up the plant itself…