Brazil rejects as ‘unjustified’ request to halt work on a huge dam in the Amazon

Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 08:56 UTC

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Brazil has said a request to halt work on its massive hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest is unjustified despite environmental concerns. Brazil's foreign ministry was responding to the request by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Read full article

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GeoffWard
All these aspects are in the Belo Monte social and environmental impact assessments and have been reworked many times over.

This is stalling.

Brasil needs this power and must do everything it takes to secure a future for the whole country.
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