The video shows the second article in the series Amazonia Pública, about hydroelectrics on Madeira River: http://apublica.org/amazoniapublica/madeira
Agência Pública
Uma investigação sobre como os grandes empreendimentos estão mudando a cara da região amazônica e a vida de seus habitantes. As equipes de reportagem da Agência Pública de Jornalismo Investigativo foram a três regiões da Amazônia para entender a nova onda de desenvolvimentismo. Entre os meses de julho e outubro de 2012, eles percorreram o polo de mineração em Marabá (PA); a bacia do Rio Tapajós; e Porto Velho e as hidrelétricas do rio Madeira.Una investigación sobre cómo las grandes empresas están cambiando la cara de la región amazónica y la vida de sus habitantes. Los equipos de la Agencia Pública de Periodismo de Investigación fueron a tres regiones de la Amazonía para entender la nueva ola del desarrollismo. Entre los meses de julio y octubre de 2012, ellos recorrieron el polo minero en Marabá (PA), la cuenca del río Tapajós, Porto Velho y las presas del río Madeira.An investigation on how large enterprises are changing the face of the Amazon region and the lives of its inhabitants. The news team of the Public Agency (Agência Pública) for Investigative Journalism went to three regions of the Amazon to understand the new wave of developmentalism. Between the months of July and October 2012, they traveled the mining pole in Maraba (PA), the Tapajós River Basin, and Porto Velho and the dams of the Madeira river.
Workers who stopped the progress
Protagonists of strikes that gained national prominence, the workers who build the plants in Rondônia still living under pressure and risk of accidents.
Megawatts War
While companies fight to extract maximum energy from the Madeira River, the local population is at the mercy of the complex consequences of the works.
Raging river
Waves swallow homes, fishes appear dead, while fishermen suffer from hunger. The Santo Antonio hydroelectric changed the river and life in Rondonia.
Life in transit
In the midst of works in Rondonia, thousands of men and women meet and grow apart, and the money disappears with the same speed that comes mixed with sex, violence and lack of public agencies.
Pig-iron: value subtracted
Learn more about the industries that would bring development to the Amazon, but eventually associated with illegal deforestation and slave labor generation.
Who gains with Vale?
Legal actions in Brazil and Switzerland want to impose limits on tax exemptions to mining company, the country still looking model to stop exporting jobs.
Video: Train Vale
Video shows the path of the train of Vale in the Carajás Railway.
Travel to Canaã
In the state of Pará, going to “largest project in the history of Vale” our team shows the region where everything “is, but is not taking” jobs, royalties and development.
Inside the forest, Vale is in a hurry
With the exploitation of the untouched Sierra Sur on Carajás National Forest, Vale expands its activities in the Amazon and promises to double the production in four years.