Belo Monte Dam construction blocked
 

BBC News - Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam

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Yay, go Mr Judge! This is fantastic news :awesome:

Nicely done! :awesome:

Hopefully doesn't get overturned anytime soon...

YAY!!! Woo Hoo!!! This is wonderful news! I'm sure JC and all the indigenous tribes will be happy to hear this.
Thanks for posting this news, HNM.

Thank god (EARTH!) Thank eywa!

Thank you judge, thank you. Now the next step is to completely cancel it and find another green energy solution.

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EYWA

I am so happy. She heard us !!! Awesome aka :awesome::awesome: news !!! :party::party:

Epic. Win. :awesome:

Heah heah heah! :D:awesome: Yes!

Nice!

I certainly have tons of doubts that the judge will make a recourse and re-bring the case. It's been decided ! :xD: And this may be a great example of what can be done when trust, tradition and a mass of people willing to change stood there and made up a front.

Unbeliavable. I never thought it could be stopped...

Me neither. But maybe the judge has his interests too... maybe not environment related. Besides that, I don't know how could they even imagine building a gigantic dam over the forest and keep on their minds the life of 40.000 people and 600.000 activists and other few million donators, petition signers and "beautiful words" email senders. :P

They are absolutely out of their minds and I guess the Earth we saw in AVATAR in 2150, will be in our reality around 2020 or 2030, worst case. They don't even imagine how murderers they are to their children and to the generations that will come, they won't breathe air. Everyone will buy special bottles of oxygen from the market, oxygen that will be created genetically in greenhouses, from synthetic fern leaves. It's very frustrating... :(

you spoke too soon :(

Brazil gives go-ahead to Amazon Monte Belo dam | DiscountVouchers.co.uk

Oh, no... I can't believe this... this just can't be possible... :( :'(:'(

They are definitely out of their minds : "...a higher court ruled that all the conditions did not need to be met for the work to start". :( Of course the project needs (needed) the conditions to be built !!! It's too late now...

If we continue to pursue the quickest, cheapest and dirtiest (but most immediately profitable) options available to us with no thought for long term survival strategies we will not last long.

I think I'm going to just bang my head on the desk for some time..

That sounds a little pesimistic to me but also encouraging :'( and there must be done something... From what I know, EVERY single project, even if it's a dam, a skyscraper tower, airport, train station, house or a bridge, must meet conditions in order to be built. If not, the whole thing is eliminated from the start... The interest here (no doubt) is money. They don't even care that agreeing the dam(n) thing to be built, actually they erased a part of those indigenous people's lives. They destroy their memories, everything they knew, just like in AVATAR with the Trees of Voices, an entire forest wiped out so them RDAs should start digging for Un-o, except the fact that in our case, they're flooding a gigantic area to build a dam... the same reason. Large profits and less caring about the others...

"That's how it's done! When people are sitting on **** that you want..."
...there's always a higher jurisdictional instance that politicians will call for to get their will.
"This is sad... very sad only...."

And again, life imitates art (considering the Avatar quotes once again sadly befitting the current mechanics of power and money).

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~*Txim Asawl*~

OAS steps in
 

OAS questions the Belo Monte project:

Txantsan :)

Let's just hope they will listen...

thats nice to know, but it would be even better if they got chevron to pay the $9 billion they owe in damages done to the rainforests in ecuador, the ****ing *******s are refusing to pay and even bribed a new york juge to back them up :| they should just die

Exactly!

Sadly!

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Thinking of this for a while, I have a guess what is going to happen. There will be calls for a compromise eventually. And then they will build some kind of dam there, maye a little small, maybe pay the people who live there a little more or give them shares and jobs, maybe build some lame environmeltally friendly fish ladders - This is how it is done - either just build it and if the resistance is too big, just throw them some breadcrumbs so the loudest voices are muted and then go ahead.

Like in Canada where the industry just had to promise to protect some part of the forest (30%) in return for environmentalists accepting the constuction of a pipeline and other "developments". Boreal Forest Conservation Framework - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And this is just worse in the "developing nations" who all want to have the standard of living the US have. Something that just cannot happen on just one planet (actually not even the US can have it forever)

At least, celebrities still work at bringing the Belo Monte Dam issue to a larger audience... Did you hear about this one...?

James Cameron Brings Arnold Schwarzenegger to Amazon to See Firsthand a Battle Between Old and New Energy


JC said:
"The most important thing is to raise awareness in Brazil that Belo Monte is not a good solution for meeting the country's energy needs – given its poor economic and the moral and ethical issues, to say nothing of its enormous toll on indigenous peoples and other inhabitants of the Xingu. The Brazilian taxpayers could save billions by cancelling the dam and investing in truly renewable energy.

"Meeting the challenges of a green energy future requires that we all learn from each other – US from Brazil and Brazil from examples like California. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke here about how breaking a new path towards a green energy future has created more jobs in California than traditional industry and service sectors. Brazil has the potential to be a world leader in promoting sustainable energy at a global scale," concluded Cameron.

Full article:
AMAZON WATCH

Here's a thoughtful Arnold:

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And a happy Arnold:

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Arnold and James with Kayapo chief Raoni Txucarramãe and Sheyla Juruna of the Xingu Alive Forever movement:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ZIYD4OLh1fg/TY...0/IMG_9193.jpg

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

Go James and Arnold! They [Dam builders & Brazilian government] cannot take whatever they want...

That's good to hear. Wonder what Arnold's going to do now from this trip, now that's he's no longer the Governator.

Wipe out everyone trying to get the dam built? :P

Just yesterday (Earth Day), Amazon Watch published a video about James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger visiting (in Cameron's case revisiting) the Arara village at the threatened big bend of the Xingu river (I already posted pictures of that visit a few posts before):

AMAZON WATCH

"Following the visit to the Xingu, we traveled to Manaus to the Global Sustainability Forum where world leaders, including Bill Clinton, reminded Brazil that it is responsible for "the stewardship of the greatest rainforest of the world", and called on Brazil to lead the world on a green energy pathway.

"You need more electricity. You need it to be clean. You want to preserve native cultures and you need to preserve the rainforest. If you reach a critical juncture, you'll change it forever and it can't be recovered and the rest of the world is depending on you because about 20% of non ocean oxygen comes from you...The whole world needs you to resolve this."

Unfortunately, the Brazilian government doesn't appear to be listening. After dismissing demands from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States to suspend the dam's licensing process until serious human rights violations have been remedied, the government is fast-tracking the dam's full installation license and seeking to initiate construction as early as next month.

It is urgent that the Brazilian government hear the call from Brazilians and the international community to defend the Amazon, indigenous rights and reconsider its plans for the Belo Monte Dam and 60 other large dams planned for the Amazon. Energy efficiency and clean renewable energy, such as solar and wind, are viable and essential solutions to more dirty dams. The entire world depends on it. "

(quoted from the Amazon Watch e-mail newsletter, April 22, 2011)

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

It seems that the Brazilian government live in their own bubble, governed by concepts of short term profit and prestige, and refuse to take the environmental, ecological and humanitarian reality into consideration. Such a government is a threat to its own country, nature and people.

They live in the same bubble as all "developing" and "developed" nations live in - they think that their actions have no consequences for nature or if they do have so, that this in turn will not have consequences for themselves. They are wrong!

Now here's good news. :awesome:

The commersial powers press on to build the dam:

And the Brazilian government show its arrogance against the indigenous communities:


Miner Vale invests in mega dam - UPI.com

That part just shows that the electricity of that dam will by no way go to the people and giving them electricity or light, but that it will go to mining operations, probably aluminium smelters. And these things just suck in electricity - surely they would provide some jobs, but the energy that goes into these is insane and there will only be a few Brazilians profiting from this - the materials created by the mining companies will be exported and made into beer cans in the USA or therelike. Much more jobs would be created by building up a renewable and sustainable way of life. I think most workers would certainly prefer if their job is to mount solar panels than to work in an aluminium smelter...

That sounds sad indeed. Very much like in the US - you give the indigenous some parts of the land you do now want anyways and then they better shut up and dont stand in the way of the rest of the people who want to destroy the 90% of the country they claim for themself for their own luxury



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