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Mongabay: After occupying the construction site of the massive Belo Monte dam for 21 days, some 300 indigenous people have left and gone home. The representatives from nine Amazonian tribes abandoned their occupation after two days of meeting with the dam's builder, the Norte Energia consortium.
Belo Monte, if completed, will be the world's third largest dam, but has been opposed by indigenous groups and conservationists for decades. The dam will displace 16,000 people according to the Brazilian government,......
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Indigenous tribes end occupation of Belo Monte
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2012
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