Story will map the BNDES increased investment in infrastructure projects in the region.
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Hydropower in the Amazon: Few subjects arouse such passions and intrigues
Hydroelectric projects leverage environmental contamination by methylmercury, the most toxic form of the chemical element.
Hydroelectric construction would displace farmers
Chadin 2 Hydroelectric would displace more than a thousand people who would lose their homes and fields.
Video: Dams of the Tapajós
Watch the ((o))eco documentary on construction of dams, affected groups and environmental problems to come.
Dams in the Amazon
From 471 dams in operation and planned, 16 are in Indigenous Territories and 49 in Protected Areas.
Bem Querer hydroelectric: big lake, little energy
Proposed hydroelectric in Branco River, which crosses the State of Roraima, would produce 6% of the energy of Belo Monte, but would create wetland greater.
IBAMA: consortium does not meet conditioning of Belo Monte
According to report, only 4 of the 23 environmental requirements imposed by the agency were attended. Of these, none was infrastructure.
Heads of ICMBio parks speak of environmental impacts
Parties responsible for Jamanxin National Park and the Tapajós Flona speak of the possible and the probable impacts of hydropowers.
A impeccable road that does not need asphalt
We return from Itaituba to Santarem by a quicker option, without holes or dust, unlike the combination Transamazonian/BR163.
Hydroelectrics of Tapajos: in map, numbers and graphs
((o))eco have reported the repercussions of five hydroelectric power plants to be built. See data from Itaituba, the base city for construction of the plants. Itaituba em números | Infographics