Brazil: Suspended construction of mega hydroelectric

Indigenous resistance against the abuse and arrogance

The widespread habit to invade territories, appropriate them and allocate them to exploitation, in the worst way, is costing expensive to the North energy Consortium, constructor of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon jungle of Brazil, call to be the third largest in the world.

 

The order to cancel the work of Belo Monte (in the State of Pará) was given unanimously by the Tribunal Regional Federal of the first Region on last August 13th because employers did not respect the Constitution nor the 169 Convention of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to not consult indigenous communities affected.

But, this is not the result of a proper administration of Justice, but the effect of the enormous pressure through the mobilizations of the native communities with broad international repercussion that grew uncontrollably from the beginning of the construction of the hydroelectric power plant in the year 2011.

It is good to remember that in the month of April of that year the Inter-American Commission on human rights also requested to stop the construction of Belo Monte, just for the lack of consultation to the natives, but the Brazilian Government rejected the resolution of the international justice.

Judicial suspension, anyway, has strengthened the hopes of the indigenous resistance against Belo Monte movement and that model of hydroelectric that prey and destroys life and the environment.