Belo Monte Dam: Conflict in the Amazon

Yale Environment 360: As the United Nations' Rio+20 conference on sustainable development takes place in Rio de Janeiro this month, a prime example of the environmental and social tensions that accompany development will be playing out in northern Brazil. There, on the Xingu River in the Amazon basin, a consortium of companies is building the Belo Monte dam complex, which will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric project, generating abundant electricity for Brazil's rapidly growing economy. Conservationists and...

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