Belo+Monte+Dam

The Brazilian government is willing to create a hidroelectric dam that will be the third biggest of the world. This action will positively affect the country's economy and energy usage. However environmentalists and indian tribes of the region are totaly against the implementation of this dam. They claim that it will harm the environment, causing the death of vegetation, wild animals, etc. The account is a current dillema within Brazilian politics.
 * Belo Monte Dam**

[|Damming the Amazon]

__Pará__: State in Brazil where the hydroelectric plan is being built.
 * Key Terms:**

__IBAMA__: Brazilian institution that takes care of the country's fauna and flora. __Clean Energy__: Energy that is attained without generating wastes or destroying environment. __Xingu River__: River where the dam will be implemented in. __Greenpeace__: Environmentalist group that protests against the implementation of the dam. __Raoni__: Indian chief of the Caiapó tribe, that is against the dam __Norte Energia SA__: Company hired to build the dam Three Gorges Dam Guri Dam Hydroelectricity
 * Links:**

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As a matter of fact, hydroelectricity is a great method of stopping carbon emissions and, by that, preventing the global warming. The physician Sir John Houghton, co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group, says that "global warming is now a weapon of mass destruction" and, in his article for The Guardian, explains how global warming is true and a very, very, very dangerous episode in human history.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jul/28/environment.greenpolitics

By: Daniel Pinho