Amazon Basin / In the Medias

French utility company Suez, Spain's Endesa and banks including Santander filed to bid for a major electricity project in Brazil's Amazon, the country's electricity regulator said on Friday.

Brasília - A study on the possibilities of building hydroelectric dams
on the Xingu River, which flows through Mato Grosso and Pará states,
has been delivered to the National Electrical Energy Agency (ANEEL).

Studies for the document, which the Federal Attorney´s office (MPF)

Around 500 members of the Movement of Dam Affected People (MAB) blocked the access road to the São Salvador Dam worksite in the early hours of 10/09/2007. The dam which is located between the municipalities of São Salvador and Parana on Rio Tocantins (State of Tocantins), will also affect the municipality of Minacu (Goias).

Brazil has given the initial go-ahead for the construction of two hydro-electric dams to be built on the longest tributary of the Amazon River.

The Madeira River projects have divided opinion even within government and in recent years have been one of the most environmentally sensitive issues.