Snapshot: “Dam”age in Brazil

Posted by fayefaye on September 30, 2011
Sep 302011

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“The 3.75-mile dam will displace 30,000 river dwellers, partially dry up a 62-mile stretch of the Xingu river, and flood large areas of forest and grass land.”

Those “river dwellers” = indigenous tribes.

The dam will be comparable to China’s notorious Three Gorges, the largest dam in the world.

Read the articles here and here.

 

Farre Nixon, 09/30/11