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Dams in the Amazon |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Glenn Switkes |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,035 Words, 13,518 Characters |
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In recent weeks, the Brazilian government has turned to the difficult task of building giant hydroelectric dams in the Amazon River. The project presents President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a major contradiction—between his ambitious economic development plan based on large-scale infrastructure, and the enormous social and environmental costs of the dams.
On the one hand, dam construction plays a critical role in the government's large-scale infrastructure initiative called the Program to Accelerate Growth (PAC). The PAC is a multi-year public works program designed to advance economic development by promoting incentives for infrastructure expansion, including building large dams in the Amazon.
On the other hand, the president from the Labor Party must confront the reality tha...
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...and the voices of river bank communities along the Amazon are not heard in Brasilia. The future of the Amazon may well depend on whether diplomatic and legal conflicts can hold Lula's Pharaonic vision of Brazilian development in check, forcing energy planners to seek an alternative path.
Copyright © Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP). (www.americas.irc-online.org)
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