Court Halts Construction Of Amazonian Dam

摘要

A federal court in Brazil has stopped work on the controversial Belo Monte Dam, finding that the indigenous peoples who live along the Xingu River were not adequately consulted. If completed, the $15 billion dam will be the third largest in the world, have the capacity to generate up to 11,000 megawatts, displace perhaps tens of thousands of residents, and flood hundreds of square kilometers of rainforest.