Brazil going ahead with 'monster dam'

Monday, January 31, 2011 - 18:50 in Mathematics & Economics

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Brazil is going ahead with the construction of the giant Bel Monte hydroelectric dam despite 30 years of campaigning by opponents who say the "monster'" project will displace 30,000 poor minority people and destroy ecology of the Amazonian forest.

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