Guardian: With most Brazilian eyes firmly fixed on the country's annual carnival, construction work officially started this week on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon.
In a blog post, the company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. A photograph showed lorries and a yellow road-roller moving on to the site.
The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon's Xingu river is scheduled......
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Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work begins
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 10th, 2011
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