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Tribes rejects payment from electricity company behind destructive Amazon dam

2013-03-14 06:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Leaders of more than two dozen Kayapó indigenous communities have rejected a $9 million offer from Brazilian state energy company Eletrobras to fund development projects in their region due to the the firm's involvement in the construction of the Belo Monte dam, reports Amazon Watch, an activist group fighting the hydroelectric project. Eletrobras had offered the money over a four year period, during which it is planning to proceed with the dam, which will redirect the flow of 80 percent of the...

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