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Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2010
Mongabay: The approval of the hydro-electric Belo Monte Dam from the Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, has raised condemnations from environmentalists and indigenous groups. The dam will divert the flow of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon River, which runs through the Amazon in northeast Brazil. According to critics the dam will destroy vast areas of pristine rainforest, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and relocate 12,000 people. "The government is trying to steamroll this project, ...
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Brazil to build Belo Monte dam in Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2010
Guardian: The Brazilian government has given the green light to the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest that environmentalists and indigenous activists claim will displace indigenous tribes and further damage the Amazon basin. Brazil's environment ministry granted the Belo Monte dam project an environmental licence late on Monday paving the way for tenders from companies interested in constructing the world's third largest hydroelectric plant, on the ...