Brazil's Belo Monte Dam: A Major Threat to the Amazon and Its People | Amazon Watch
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Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: A Major Threat to the Amazon and Its People

January 2011 | Amazon Watch | Report

Brazil's Belo Monte Dam: A Major Threat to the Amazon and Its People

The Brazilian government is moving ahead “at any cost” with plans to build the third-largest dam in the world and one of the Amazon’s most controversial development projects – the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the state of Pará. The Belo Monte dam complex dates back to Brazil’s military dictatorship and the government has attempted to build it through a series of various national investment programs including Brasil em Ação and the Program to Accelerate Growth. Original plans to dam the Xingu have been greenwashed through multiple public relations programs over the course of two decades in the face of intense national and international protest.

Please contact Christian Poirier, Amazon Watch’s Brazil Program Coordinator, to learn more about this issue.

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