2010年2月3日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Uproar in Brazil over huge Amazon dam plan (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:38 AM PST

British musician Sting (L) points to a map next to indigenous Brazilian Caiapo chief Raoni during a joint press conference in Sao Paulo, November 2009, on a hydroelectric dam construction in Xingu River. The controversial plan endorsed this week to build the immense dam in Brazil's rainforest has attracted a formidable bloc of opponents: ecologists, indigenous Indians and Sting.(AFP/File/Wladimir de Souza)AFP - A controversial plan to build an immense dam in Brazil's rainforest endorsed this week has attracted a formidable bloc of opponents: ecologists, indigenous Indians and Sting.


Brazil uproar over massive Amazon dam plan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:33 PM PST

British musician Sting (L) points to a map next to indigenous Brazilian Caiapo chief Raoni during a joint press conference in Sao Paulo, November 2009, on a hydroelectric dam construction in Xingu River. The controversial plan endorsed this week to build the immense dam in Brazil's rainforest has attracted a formidable bloc of opponents: ecologists, indigenous Indians and Sting.(AFP/File/Wladimir de Souza)AFP - Environmentalists, indigenous groups and British rock star Sting have denounced a government plan to build the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon river basin, which they claim will devastate the region.


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