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Brazil: Amazon Indians occupy controversial dam to demand a say

2013-05-04 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric dam for two days. Some 200 people from various indigenous groups occupied one of three construction sites of the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River on Thursday, halting work by 3,000 of the 22,000 workers on the project. They are demanding that the Brazilian government hold prior consultations with indigenous peoples before building...

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