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    Environmental Efforts Can't Curb Social Impact of Amazon Pipeline

    Inter Press Service News Agency | Manaus, Brazil - While Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras has taken great pains to limit the environmental impact of gas pipelines in the Amazon region, it has proven more difficult to curb the social repercussions of large-scale projects in the midst of dire poverty.The discovery in 1986 of natural gas in Urucú

    June 7, 2005
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    Remembering Sister Dorothy Stang

    E Magazine | When I met Sister Dorothy Stang, I knew I was encountering someone remarkable. I met her in Belém, the capital of Pará state in northern Brazil. Belém has more than a million people. It was not the natural habitat for Dayton, Ohio native Dorothy Stang, who had gone to the city to petition the state government.

    February 13, 2005
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    Donation Sparks Fury Over Urucu Pipe Plan

    Upstream Newsletter | Petrobras and its TNG partners are pushing ahead with controversial plans to build a $350 million gas pipeline from the Urucu field across the Amazon rainforest, despite environmental groups crying foul over the project and taking their fight to the courts.The TNG consortium, formed by Petrobras (50%), El Paso (25%) an

    September 1, 2004
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    Judge Suspends Provisional Licence for Urucu-Porto Velho Gas Pipeline Project

    Amazonia.org -- www.amazonia.org.br | Sao Paulo, Brazil - The Federal Judge Boaventura Joao Andrade,of the State of Amazonas, has suspended the provisional licence conceded by IBAMA, the Brazilian environment agency, to Petrobras for the construction of the Urucu-Porto Velho gas pipeline.

    April 14, 2003
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    Cuestionan el Tendido del Gasoducto Yabog

    El Deber | Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Bolivia, Informe. Organización Amazonwatch teme que se repitan daños ambientales ANF.

    December 15, 2002
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    Petrobras Defends Amazon Pipelines - Brazil

    BNamericas.com | Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras has begun its public campaign to defend the construction of pipelines in the Amazon, according to local newspapers. Brazil is faced with the dilemma of accepting some damage to the environment in the name of development and progress.

    October 11, 2002
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    Amazonia Loses 18,000 Square Kilometres of Forest in One Year

    http://www.estado.com.br/ | Sao Paulo -Government celebrate expected fall in the rate of devastation by 13%Brasilia - The deforestation of Amazonia affected an area of 18,226 squarekilometres between August 1999 and August 2000, which represents an increaseof 5% in relation to the previous year.

    June 11, 2002
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    Brazil Searches for More Energy

    New York Times | Altamira, Brazil - Nearly 2,000 miles to the south, in the huge cities ofRio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, electricity is being rationed and blackoutsare a greater threat.

    October 21, 2001
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    Coordinator of Movement against Xingu Dams is Murdered

    Forum of the Eastern Amazon Brazil | Early this morning around 2:30 AM, one of the coordinators of the Movement for the Development of the Transamazon and the Xingu* was assassinated. Ademir Alfeu Federicci, known as "Dema", was shot in the head following a struggle with an armed man who entered his house in Altamira.

    August 25, 2001
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    New Pipelines Threaten Intact Amazon Rainforests in Brazil

    The dark side of President Cardoso’s “Advance Brazil" plan: Carving energy grids in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon

    In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, over 400 miles (700 km) upriver from Manaus, two new pipelines are planned to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields.

    June 1, 2001
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    A Reserva de Gás e Gasodutos de Urucu Ameaça Áreas Intactas da Floresta Amazônica Brasileira O Lado Negro do Avança Brasil de FHC é Cravar uma Rede de Energia no Coração da Amazônia Brasileira

    Resumo do ProjetoNo coração da Amazônia brasileira,a 700 km acima de Manaus,planeja-se a construção de dois novos gasodutos para a expansão da produção de gás e óleo das reservas de Urucu e Jurua.Um dos mais arriscados e menos divulgados esquemas do plano Avança Brasil, este empreendimento está entre os vint

    June 1, 2001
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    Indians Protest Brazil Anniversary

    Brasilia, Brazil (AP) - Hundreds of Indians marching in the capitalThursday destroyed a monument commemorating the500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil by Portuguese explorers.Armed with bows and arrows, and wearing traditional war paint, some 400Indians paraded down the main avenues of the

    April 13, 2000
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    Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Yanomami Indigenous Leader from Brazil

    TO ALL WHO WISH TO HEAR METhe biggest problem for the Yanomami Indians now are the garimpeiro (goldminers) who are in our land, and the illnesses they bring with them. The government's National Health Foundation say that 1300 Yanomami had got malaria up until May this year.

    August 25, 1997
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