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Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops

By Giovanny Vera 12 de November de 201514 de September de 2020

By 2040, many of Brazil’s existing and planned hydropower projects, including those in the Tapajós basin, could become unviable as drought worsens and river flows decrease.

Tapajos river mega dams again postponed by the Brazilian government

By Stefano Wrobleski 14 de October de 201514 de September de 2020

The São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric, which once had the start of their operations planned for January 2016 is now projected to run from 2021.

Belo Monte license must provide this year, says president of IBAMA

By Giovanny Vera 9 de October de 201514 de September de 2020

The president of the institution responsible for environment and natural resources of Brazil said that the licensing process is ahead and denied that IBAMA has rejected the operating license of the plant.

Almost completed, Belo Monte will change the pulse of the waters of the Xingu River

By Giovanny Vera 5 de October de 201514 de September de 2020

If Brazilian government gives the operating license to the hydroelectric and the 11 dam gates are closed, there will be 80% less water in Volta Grande. The natural cycle of ebbs and flows will no longer be the same.

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

By Giovanny Vera 9 de September de 201514 de September de 2020

Dams planned for the Amazon and its tributaries could do irreversible harm to fish migrations and to wildlife — but energy solutions ranging from run-of-the-river dams to a shift to solar and wind power could safeguard the forest.

Oil Spill in the Amazon in Ecuador

The Nation: Is Ecuador Selling Its Economic and Environmental Future?

By Stefano Wrobleski 18 de December de 201414 de September de 2020

In July of this year, a pipeline ruptured near an upriver tributary of the Aguarico, just above Dureno. The spill, an estimated 16,000 barrels, spread for almost a hundred miles down through the precious 600,000-hectare Cuyabeno wildlife reserve, as far as Zabalo.

Tapajós Project: the next target of power generation expansion

By Giovanny Vera 27 de November de 201414 de September de 2020

Paper examines plans for the construction of dams in the basin of the Tapajós River and its effects on indigenous communities and the environment.

Hydroelectric dams in tropical areas do not generate clean energy

By Stefano Wrobleski 24 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

In a letter to world leaders at the UN Climate Summit in New York, a group of over 50 organizations stated that large dams built in the tropics as part of the hydroelectric plants do not generate clean energy.

Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha

By Stefano Wrobleski 16 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

A plan to build a dozen dams in the Tapajós river basin would drive the loss of 950,000 hectares of rainforest by 2032 by spurring land speculation and mass migration to the region, suggests a study published by Imazon.

Workshop on citizen participation in Mazán Hydroelectric Project

By Giovanny Vera 13 de June de 201414 de September de 2020

The aim was to strengthen the knowledge of the people in their right to participate in the evaluation, approval and implementation of the project, that may will affect them.

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