Mongabay: The environmental license for the controversial Belo Monte dam violates the constitutional rights of indigenous communities and is therefore illegal, ruled a federal judge in Brazil on Monday.
Judge Selene Maria de Almeida concluded that the 2005 decree that authorized the dam is illegal because Congress failed to carry out a consultation process with communities that will be affected by the dam. The consultation process is a right guaranteed to indigenous communities under Brazil's constitution.......
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Belo Monte dam license ‘illegal’ rules Brazilian federal judge
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 19th, 2011
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