hydroelectric

Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian Brazil

By Mario Osava
The decade-and-a-half-long battle for life in the so-called Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu river, a stretch of the river dewatered by the Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant in the Brazilian Amazon, has a possible solution, albeit a partial one.

Indigenous Voices Ignored in Financing Panamanian Dam Project

By Kwame Buist
Indigenous people who would be directly affected by the impact of a hydroelectric project in Panama were not consulted despite national and international human rights obligations to obtain their free, prior and informed consent, according to a just-released report.
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