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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/19559| Title: | The Balbina disaster: the need to ask why? |
| Authors: | Gribel, Rogério |
| Keywords: | Dam Construction Electricity Sector Environmental Damage Environmental Disaster Financial Cost Flooding Hydroelectric Project Hydroelectric Station Social Cost Amazonia Balbina Dam Uatuma River |
| Issue Date: | 1990 |
| metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Ecologist |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 20, Número 4, Pags. 133-135 |
| Abstract: | The Balbina dam cost nearly a billion dollars of public money, destroyed 236 000 hectares of primary forest, formed a gigantic lake of shallow stagnant water, killed millions of wild animals, flooded indigenous lands, is causing hunger and illness to riverine people - all for just 80 megawatts of electricity. Even those responsible for the dam now admit that it is a disaster, yet similar projects are still being built and no investigation has been carried out to discover why, in the face of clear scientific warnings, Balbina was ever constructed. -Author |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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