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Criticism Mounts over the Brazilian Government's Licensing of the Destructive Belo Monte Dam (PR Newswire) Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:38 PM PST PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmentalists, indigenous people, and social movements in Brazil condemned today's news that an environmental license was issued by the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) for the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam. The massive project, slated to be the world's third largest, would divert the flow of the Xingu River and devastate an extensive area of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, threatening the survival of indigenous peoples.

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