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Inter Press Service: "It's a fait accompli," acknowledges André Villas-Boas, head of the independent SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), resigned to the fact that the legal actions and protests have failed to block the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle region. But the battles lost against megaprojects harmful to the environment and to indigenous peoples and other local communities have not discouraged activists from mobilising. However, they have made social ......
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Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2010
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