Brazilian judge orders construction of Amazon dam to stop

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Source: The Guardian

A Brazilian judge has ordered construction to be suspended on a controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon.

In his ruling, Judge Carlos Castro Martins said that all working on the Belo Monte dam that interfered with the natural course of the Xingu river should be halted because of the risk that fish stocks would be damaged.

The £7bn dam would reputedly be the third largest in the world, after China's Three Gorges and the Itaipu project on the Brazil-Paraguay border.

The injunction is the latest development in a decades-long battle against the Belo Monte dam, plans for which were originally conceived in the mid-1970s but subsequently shelved after major protests.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/29/brazilian-judge-monte-bello-dam

[Hubert Flottz]

1. There's nothing the "Experts" won't ruin to make a buck.

Good for the judge...