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What Are We WIlling To Sacrifice For Clean Energy?

February 24th 2010 01:38
The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam to be built on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam will be 11,000 MW (enough power for over 23 million homes), which would make it the second-largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil, and the third-largest in the world. The dam is expected to cost $3 billion and the transmission lines $2.5 billion.

The project is criticized by environmental organisations as it will flood 400 square kilometres of agricultural lands and forest and will directly impact the Paquiçamba reserve of the Juruna indigenous people. It was also said that to be feasible, the Belo Monte dam needs other dams upstream to guarantee a year-round flow of water. This means that more forest will be flooded.


The first Belo Monte dam proposal was abandoned in 1990s because of international and national protest.
In February 2010, Brazil's government granted an environmental licence for the construction of the dam.

The info-graphic below from EU Infrastructure details the facts, figure and environmental costs of the dam. Read more of their take on the Belo Monte Dam here.


Belo Monte Dam Facts
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*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Belo Monte Dam.


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