- The Brazilian government is implementing the construction of the Belo Monte mega-dam to provide 11,000 megawatts of power.
- A new large scale hydroelectric dam, the Belo Monte, is due to be completed in 2016 on the Xingu River in the state of Pará.
- Belo Monte Dam: A spearhead for Brazil’s dam building attack on Amazonia? GWF Discussion Paper 1210, Global Water Forum, Canberra, Australia.
- The Brazilian government has launched an unprecedented drive to dam the Amazon’s tributaries, and Belo Monte is the spearhead for its efforts.
- The Belo Monte dam would be the third largest in the world. As much earth moving would be required to build it as was needed to build the Panama Canal.
- Google has just released a very impressive tour showing the potential repercussions of the proposed Belo Monte Dam Complex on the Xingu River in the Amazon.
- The Belo Monte complex, with the third largest power plant in the world, is planned to generate just 4,571 megawatts of firm energy on average.
- Brazil has built more than 200 large hydroelectric dams as a way to produce energy for a growing economy, and Norte Energia’s Belo Monte Dam has been one of...
- […] the disastrous social and environmental impact in the Amazon, the brazilian government has allowed for the construction of Belo Monte dam.
- This arrangement distributes the hydropower plant between the sites of Belo Monte and Pimental (see slideshow map), with the main dam in the latter area.