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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Rousseff Roils Amazon as Brazil Hydropower Makes People Homeless
Bloomberg: Brazil is investing billions to build 20 hydroelectric plants in the Amazon with power lines to faraway cities. The project will flood rainforests 107 times the size of Manhattan, displace thousands from their ancestral lands and send the country deeper into debt. Brazil's high-priced dam project is a featured story in the May issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine. Jose Carlos Arara puts a tarnished 38-caliber revolver into his waistband. It's a sweltering, mid- November morning in the Brazilian...
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