Mongabay: In an symbolic protest of the giant Belo Monte Dam, Friday morning some 300 locals dug a channel in an earthen dam that blocks a portion of the Xingu River and serves as the first step for the controversial hydroelectric project, reports Amazon Watch. "In the early morning hours, three hundred women and children arrived in the hamlet of Belo Monte on the Transamazon Highway, and marched onto a temporary earthen dam recently built to impede the flow of the Xingu River. Using pick axes and shovels,...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0615-rio20-belo-monte-protest.html
Enclosure: http://photos.mongabay.com/12/0615belomonte.jpg
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