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Brazil is negotiating hydroelectric construction in Bolivia

By Giovanny Vera 24 de April de 201514 de September de 2020

According to newspaper Valor Economico, binational plant should cost $ 5 billion and enter service in 2022. BNDES is seen as the main funder.

Indiginous people face police officers in Belo Monte

The Guardian: Belo Monte, Brazil – tribes living in the shadow of a megadam

By Mark Smith 18 de December de 201414 de September de 2020

Next year the Belo Monte dam will flood vast swathes of Amazon rainforest. Indian tribes living on the river have lost their fight to halt the project – now they await the floods that threaten their entire way of life.

Hydroelectric dams in tropical areas do not generate clean energy

By Mark Smith 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 Mark Smith 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.

IBAMA granted an installation license to São Manoel Hydroelectric Plant

By Mark Smith 27 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) granted a license to install the Hydroelectric Plant of São Manoel, planned at the Teles Pires River, at the border between Mato Grosso and Pará.

Dams in the Amazon and the price paid by the energy

By Giovanny Vera 3 de May de 201414 de September de 2020

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.

Dar Perú: Big hydroelectrics and the great flood of the Madeira River

By Giovanny Vera 28 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Documentary with testimonies of people affected by hydroelectrics Santo Antonio and Jirau and Madeira river floods, amplified by dams.

Amazônia Blog: “Dams could result in catastrophy” says researcher

By Mark Smith 13 de March de 201414 de September de 2020

Federal University of Rondônia researcher warns that hydroelectric plants of Santo Antônio and Jirau on the Madeira River could produce catastrophic results in Rondônia and Bolivia.

Forbes: Was Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam A Bad Idea?

By Mark Smith 13 de March de 201414 de September de 2020

The world’s third largest hydroelectric dam is currently being built in the Amazon of Brazil. For the government, Belo Monte is a necessity. For roughly 20,000 people living in the Altamira region of Para State, it is the end of life as they knew it.

MOST READ

Amazônia Blog: “Dams could result in catastrophy” says researcher

13 de March de 2014

Forbes: Was Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam A Bad Idea?

13 de March de 2014

Dams in the Amazon and the price paid by the energy

3 de May de 2014

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

16 de September de 2014

Indiginous people face police officers in Belo Monte

The Guardian: Belo Monte, Brazil – tribes living in the shadow of a megadam

18 de December de 2014

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