Topic: Xingu River
In a major victory for Brazilian environmentalists, Judge Carlos Castro Martins has suspended work on the $11 billion Belo Monte dam, stating that...
Environmentalists and activists for Brazil's indigenous peoples on Thursday cheered a federal court order halting construction at the controversial $11 billion Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.Government officials said meanwhile they would appeal the decision on the dam, a project which is ...
A federal court in Brazil has ordered a halt in construction at the controversial $11 billion Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, saying it would disrupt fishing by local indigenous people.The project has drawn international criticism, including from Oscar-winning movie director James Cameron ...
A federal court in Brazil on Wednesday ordered a halt in construction at the controversial $11 billion Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, saying it would disrupt fishing by local indigenous people.The project has drawn international criticism including from Oscar-winning movie director James ...
Oscar-winning movie director James Cameron on Thursday said tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest could turn to violence to block construction of a massive dam."The Kayapo are going to fight," Cameron told AFP in Washington, where he was named an explorer-in-residence ...
Environmentalists and indigenous people Thursday defiantly rejected the Brazilian government's decision allowing work to begin on a giant hydroelectric dam, while the state prosecutor filed an appeal to suspend the ruling.Brazil's environmental agency on Wednesday approved "necessary infrastructure" for ...
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Film director James Cameron said he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands."I want to return to ...
Film director James Cameron said Sunday he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands."I want to return ...
Tensions are flaring after Brazil's approval of the Belo Monte dam project last month to divert the flow of the Xingu River. We will not let them [build the Belo Monte Dam]," Chief Raoni Metuktire, of the indigenous Kayapo tribe in ...
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Xingu River Recap
Jim Cameron and I had a great visit to the ...2011-03-24 -
BROLL: James Cameron visits the Xingu ...
BROLL from Amazon Watch and James Cameron visiting communities that ...2010-04-05 -
The Kuluene River - Xingu River Basin ...
On a very grey day, in September of 2008, we ...2011-10-26
