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Tag: Belo Monte Dam

Posted inLatin America

Indigenous groups fight construction of dam in Brazil

by El Tecolote Staff June 7, 2013June 8, 2013

Indigenous and environmentalist organizations in Brazil are organizing to stop the construction of what would be the country’s second largest hydroelectric plant. Settled in the Pará state, in the heart of the Amazon, the Belo Monte Dam promises to produce more than 10 percent of the electricity that Brazil will need for the year 2020. […]

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