EL PAIS, 2nd February 2011. The hidroelectric project Inambari promoted by Peru and Brazil, with an installed power of 2.200 megawatts -double than the biggest dam in Spain- will spand over 410 km2 in the middle of the Amazon forest covering several km of primary forest, some cocoa, pineapple and banana plantations and threatening the environmental and social equilibrium in the area. Locals are already distrustful of the project, the ecologists oppose to it and the indigenous tribus refuse it to the point of declaring: “Yes, we are leaving, of course, but dead”. The ecological remediation promises from the construction company -Egasur- are not convincing the inhabitants of the area, an area already harmed by uncontroled extractive economy.
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Posted by: belenalvarezpalomo | 2 February 2011
Too much dam for the Amazon
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