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Independent Experts Find Fatal Flaws in Amazon Dam Studies

A group of independent experts -- including internationally-renowned authorities on the Amazon -- have found serious errors and omissions in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Brazil’s massive Madeira River hydroelectric project. The experts found the EIA to be inadequate, and recommend that additional studies be undertaken to evaluate the project’s impacts.

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Belo Monte Licensing Quagmire Continues

Fri, 12/04/2009 - 12:10pm

Sting Meets Raoni to Protest Belo Monte Dam (  Beto Ricardo, Instituto Socioambeintal)

Sting Meets Raoni to Protest Belo Monte Dam (  Beto Ricardo, Instituto Socioambeintal)

The Belo Monte licensing battle continued to intensify as two top officials in the environmental protection service Ibama were canned after they refused to sign off on a license, and there are still reportedly some 16 issues to be resolved before a license could be considered.

This despite the fact that nearly daily statements in November by Brazil's Mines and Energy Minister, Edison Lobão, who confidently announced that the issuance of the license was imminent.

New Report Shows: We’re Borrowing Half a Planet From Our Kids

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 3:43pm

Kids (Wikimedia Commons  )

Kids (Wikimedia Commons  )

Global society depletes the planet’s resources ever more quickly. According to new data just released by the Global Footprint Network, we consume almost 50 percent more than what the Earth can sustainably provide. Arab Gulf states and the US lead the list of profligate consumers. As a consequence, we are increasingly in debt to future generations. Here are the figures.

The True Costs of Belo Monte Dam Emerge

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

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.

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Independent Review Highlights the True Costs of Belo Monte Dam

 

The true costs of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, planned for the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, have been revealed in a new independent review by a panel of 40 specialists. The panel found that the dam would have serious consequences for the region, its inhabitants, and ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest.

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“Belo Monte foi Proposto por Megalômanos e Trambiqueiros”

Oswaldo Sevá

 

"Acho que engenharia é uma coisa muito séria para ser praticada por pessoas que são mentirosas como este grupo que inventou e está tocando o projeto de Belo Monte há vinte anos. São mentirosos e agora estas mentiras estão começando a vir à tona, felizmente".

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Análise Crítica do Estudo de Impacto Ambiental Belo Monte

Painel de Especialistas

 

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.

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