Environmental Flows

Map of Area Directly Impacted by Belo Monte Dam (from Belo Monte EIA)

What would be the true environmental, social, and economic costs of Belo Monte Dam? New studies by a group of independent experts have highlighted the serious consequences the dam would have for the region, its inhabitants, and ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest.

Belo Monte, which with an installed generating capacity of 11,231 MW would be the world's third largest dam, and its complex array of two powerhouses, artificial canals, huge dykes, two reservoirs, spillways, ports, roads, and work camps would devastate more than 1,500 sq km of the Xingu River region of the central Brazilian Amazon.

from Belo Monte EIA

 

Independent Experts Panel report on Belo Monte Dam

Resumo Executivo do relatório do Painel de Especialistas sobre Belo Monte

 

Especialistas vinculados a diversas Instituições de Ensino e Pesquisa identificam e analisam, de acordo com a sua especialidade, graves problemas e sérias lacunas no EIA de Belo Monte.

Talking with an Expert on Rivers' Needs for Water

Originally published in World Rivers Review, June 2003

 

Usina enfrenta resistência dos índios e pode reduzir muito a vazão do rio em época de seca

 

 Veja o Relatório de Impacto Ambiental da hidrelétrica Belo Monte