Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Brazil President: Not building Amazon dam would be 'insane,' nation needs clean energy

Apr 27, 2010
Source: Today Online

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's president says scrapping an enormous Amazon hydroelectric dam would be "insane" as otherwise the country would generate energy in a more polluting way.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also says the Belo Monte dam project - and subsequent flooding of a large area in the jungle - will displace 16,000 people.

Activists say 40,000 will be displaced.

Last week, a consortium of nine companies won rights to build the dam.

It is opposed by activists and movie director James Cameron. They say energy produced will go mostly to mining companies.

Brazil's government insists the dam - to be the world's third largest - will produce clean energy.

Silva says Monday using fuel-fired plants would be an "insane move" in the fight against global warming.
Posted by Navin at 4:15 AM

1 comment:

Blog do Jorge Hipólito said...

I once dreamed that lions gathered in the forest and installed gallery, where exposed humans.These, the most diverse, for example, white, yellow, black and red and belonging to many nationalities. They represented those who have not taken environmental consciousness. Each wore an adhesive label that he called his classification of the predator environment. Example of what appeared in the strips: deforestation, hunting of irrational animals, industrial polluter of water, industrial polluter of air and soil carbon producer, producer of nuclear energy for building atomic bombs and corrupt politicians among others. the gallery had a VIP room, where they sat presidents of several countries. Incredible, but these chairs are not those that promised to reduce carbon emissions? Yes, however, failed and how life in their countries is becoming unbearable, they tried to corrupt us, because they wanted to settle here in the only forest preserve what remains. But what will you do with them? Well, after being interviewed and observed by all the dumb animals of the forest and after signing the contract assuming commitment to revitalize the environment will be repatriated to their countries. Okay, but what will happen to those who refuse to sign the contract? In such circumstances, they will be forced to drink magic potion manipulated by the monkeys and the transform exactly what destroyed most life-long. Lion of the sky, I do not think you will do it with these rational animals. We will do so, for example, many of them will be transformed into whales, dolphins, crocodiles, scarlet macaws, hyacinth macaws, lions, tigers, elephants, deer, gold, silver, uranium, bauxite and diamond to freshwater. However, most will be turned into trees of type: Oak, Sequoia, Mahogany, Chestnut, Pau Brazil among other thousands. Nearing the end of the interview I asked the lion, you're not being as cruel as were humans. The lion replied, no, I'm offering an opportunity for them to change behavior, because so far they did not know what they did. Leo, you're wrong, humans are rational. Leo: No, they never were, perhaps, from now on.

April 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM

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