Destructive Belo Monte Dam Gets Green Light in Brazil | Amazon Watch
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Destructive Belo Monte Dam Gets Green Light in Brazil

February 3, 2010 | BBC

This interview with Amazon Watch Brazil Program Coordinator Christian Poirier was aired on the BBC 5 radio program Up All Night with Rod Sharpe. The interview explores the growing international movement to stop the Brazilian government’s plans to build the Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazon’s Xingu River as well as the project’s serious impacts on the region’s indigenous people and ecology.

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