Nature: When a few hundred demonstrators, mostly from indigenous communities, temporarily occupied the construction site of the Belo Monte dam on Brazil's Xingu River early on 27 October, workers laid down their tools. But the Brazilian government did not back down from its stance that this hydroelectric project on a tributary of the Amazon -- expected to be among the world's largest, with a capacity of 11,000 megawatts, when completed in 2015 -- is essential to meeting the energy needs of a booming economy.......
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A struggle for power
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 10th, 2011
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