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Artikel

30 Jul 2015

Autor:
Mario Osava, IPS/ Envolverde/Terramérica

Brazil: Federal Attorney’s Office says it will sue Consórcio Norte Energia for allegations of ethnocide of indigenous people for resisting the Belo Monte dam construction

“Indigenous People in Brazil’s Amazon – Crushed by the Belo Monte Dam?”, 16 July 2015

…Ethnocide, the new accusation leveled against the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, brings to light deeper underlying aspects of the conflicts and controversies unleashed by megaprojects in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Federal prosecutor Thais Santi announced that legal action would be taken “in the next few weeks” against Norte Energía, the company building the dam, on the argument that its initiatives to squelch indigenous resistance amount to ethnocide…Belo Monte has been the target of numerous complaints and lawsuits that sought to halt the construction process. The company has been accused of failing to live up to the measures required by the government’s environmental authority to mitigate or compensate for impacts caused by the hydropower complex on the Xingú River…The 22 lawsuits brought by the public prosecutor’s office failed to halt work on the dam. But they managed to secure compliance with several environmental requisites…In a Jun. 29 report, the non-governmental Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA) said the conditions were not in place for the government to issue the final operating permit to allow Belo Monte to fill its reservoirs and begin generating electricity in early 2016. ISA…said that many of the 40 initial requisites…have not yet been fulfilled. Protection of indigenous territories is one of the conditions that have not been met, as reflected in the increase of illegal logging and poaching by outsiders, it said. Norte Energía argues that it has invested 68 million dollars to benefit the roughly 3,000 people in 34 villages in the 11 indigenous territories in the Belo Monte zone of influence…

Part of the following timelines

Brazil: Authorities and civil society accuse Consórcio Norte Energia of breaching agreements for construction of Belo Monte causing human rights abuses to indigenous people & the population in general; company comments

Consórcio Norte Energia lawsuit (re Belo Monte dam in Brazil)

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