Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam Stirs Controversy
Source: Al Jazeera
About 24,000 people will be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for the world’s third biggest dam.
Altamira, Brazil – Drive about 90 minutes outside this sultry Brazilian Amazon town, and into the thicket of the jungle, and a surreal, other-worldly scene appears.
It’s a place where dozens of steel arms with giant claws from land excavators cut into the red earth, carving out deep holes.
There are earth movers, growling bulldozers and dump trucks crossing switch back roads that lead into colossal man-made craters, while clusters of hard hat-wearing engineers, glare down inspecting it all.