Belo Monte Dam Hit by Friendly Fire

Inter Press Service: Those who made the final decision on the design of Brazil's Belo Monte hydroelectric dam will face legal action in the future for the damages caused. This is the kind of warning one would expect from environmentalists, but in this case it comes from a surprising quarter: staunch supporters of hydropower. Belo Monte is "a bad project, which does not respond to either environmental demands or energy demands," physicist and energy and environment expert José Goldemberg told Tierramérica, to explain...

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