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Mongabay: Construction on Brazil's megadam, Belo Monte, has been halted again as around 150 demonstrators, most of them from nearby indigenous tribes, have occupied the main construction site at Pimental. Over a hundred indigenous people joined local fishermen who had been protesting the dam for 24 days straight. Indigenous people and local fishermen say the dam will devastate the Xingu River, upending their way of life.
"The renewed occupation of the project's earthen cofferdams paralyzed construction......
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Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 9th, 2012
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