Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

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Sep 13, 2016, 10:00 am113 ptsTrending
[caption id="attachment_189257" align="alignnone" width="768"] Street scene in downtown Altamira. The sprawling city of 150,000 people is currently without operational drinking water or sewage systems due to an unmet binding commitment by Norte Energia, the builder and operator of the Belo Monte dam. Photo by…

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