Brazil’s environmental agency gave final approval…for a giant hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rain forest that has been at the center of a protracted battle between the government and environmentalists over the fate of indigenous people…Ibama, granted a license to the North Energy consortium…Opponents said…the Belo Monte dam…would flood a large part of the Xingu River basin, affecting local fishing and forcing tens of thousands of indigenous people from their native lands…The license was granted by…[Ibama] after “robust technical analysis,” the government said...The North Energy consortium will pay $1.9 billion for “social-environmental measures,”…Ibama…put the number of displaced people at 20,000 but insisted that no indigenous people would be removed from their lands…