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Integration and the Environment on the Rio Madeira [Brazil]
At the recent World Social Forum held in Brazil, a group of 27 organizations issued a manifesto opposing the local government's construction of the Madeira Dam Complex in the Amazon… The environmental impact of the project would extend over nearly a million square kilometers of rainforest in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, flooding areas, deforesting others, reducing fish stocks, upsetting water flows … the lion’s share of the mega-project’s benefits will go to big companies – particularly those in agribusiness…[importantly] Grupo Maggi… [T]he state-run Furnas electrical company and the private conglomerate Odebrecht [will construct]… the Madeira Complex's two biggest dams. [Also refers to GDF Suez]