David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win

Mongabay
By Glenn SchererJul 27, 2015, 4:30 pm140 pts
[dropcap type="5"]B[/dropcap]y the time the dam engineers came down the rocky path above the village of Tupen Grande on that night in June 2014, the peasant patrol was waiting, clubs in their hands. For months, engineers from Oderbrecht, the Brazilian construction company, had been trying to enter the area to…

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