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Dams in the Amazon and the price paid by the energy

Amazônia Real
3 May 2014 at 3:31 (Updated on 14 September 2020 at 11:45)

Brazil has, by hydropower in the current conditions, one of the cheapest sources and the Brazilian people pays the most expensive rates in the world.

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