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BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

By Annika McGinnis 8 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

Brazil’s development bank is investing heavily in a plan to build huge hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and across South America.

Brazil will answer to OAS for human rights violations in Belo Monte

By Giovanny Vera 4 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

According to the complaint, Brazil authorized work on the Belo Monte dam, without consultation or prior, free and informed authorization by the indigenous communities of the region.

BNDES-funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

By Annika McGinnis 30 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

Was Brazil’s BNDES bank too rigid to change course when the Belo Monte dam showed signs of becoming a financial, environmental and social disaster?

Belo Monte dam flooded 500 families not recognized as affected

By Giovanny Vera 11 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

After a heavy rain day in Altamira, Brazil, more than 500 families in the Jardim Independente neighborhood had their community flooded. Families report that the lake’s dam is directly impacting the flow of rainwater.

Report from the Amazon: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

By Giovanny Vera 10 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

Where rainforest stood, Amazon basin boom towns spring up to house workers building dams, roads, transmission lines and other infrastructure — cities like Altamira lack basic sanitation and have high crime rates.

Repórter Brasil: Who are the Chinese eyeing the Amazon?

By Annika McGinnis 26 de February de 201614 de September de 2020

A Chinese company with a trail of human rights violations wants to build a plant in São Luiz do Tapajós, the biggest environmental controversy since Belo Monte dam

Belo Monte dam, in Brazil, is fined $ 4 million per death of fish

By Giovanny Vera 22 de February de 201614 de September de 2020

Norte Energia concessionaire, owner of the Belo Monte Dam, under construction on the Xingu River, Brazil, was fined due to the large amount of dead fish as a result of the plant’s reservoir filling.

Audience warns about risks of dams on Tapajós river, Brazil

By Giovanny Vera 3 de February de 201614 de September de 2020

The Public Prosecution held a public meeting in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil, to discuss impacts of São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric construction and irregularities of the environmental impact study.

Brazil court suspends Amazon hydrodam licence on native demands

By Giovanny Vera 16 de January de 201614 de September de 2020

A Brazilian court has suspended the operating licence for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, one of the world’s largest, just weeks before its owner, planned to start electricity generation, prosecutors said.

Belo Monte dam threatens 50 fish species unique in the world

By Giovanny Vera 12 de January de 201614 de September de 2020

Experts claim that 450 dams can destroy one third of the world’s freshwater fishes in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong basins, where live 4000 species of freshwater fishes live.

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