Zenawi and his government stress that this dam project could potentially transform Ethiopia's economy.
And if Vale takes a stake, the Belo Monte dam project will have a global mining company involved.
Chile's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a multi-billion dollar dam project in Patagonia, in the south of the country.
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Her house was built 2006 by officials in an effort to house people relocated from villages that were to be submerged by a dam project.
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Eight international construction companies have been charged with bribery in Lesotho after they allegedly paid bribes to win contracts for a multi-million dollar dam project.
Later this year the Yangzi will be blocked and diverted at the site of the Three Gorges dam, a giant project that will turn the 600 kilometres below Chongqing into a lake.
His colleague, bait-shop owner Josh Smith, proposed modifying the current dam to aid the rapids project but keep the lamprey barrier.
The scandal concerns contracts for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a dam construction venture which has been partly funded by the World Bank.
And the major part of the project is a huge dam called the Cofferdam, which has been built to hold back the water from the docks.
In 2009, he was aggravated when he was told that none of the money from the stimulus would be spent on a signature project, a modern-day Hoover Dam or Interstate Highway System.
Perhaps no project better exemplifies this challenge than the Three Gorges Dam.
The first phase of the project has been completed with the construction of the Katse dam in Lesotho.
They researchers looked closely at Brazil's highly controversial Belo Monte dam, said to be the world's third largest hydropower project.
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The catchment area of the dam, once constructed, will be the key to the future of the project.
When the dam was completed in 1935, it delighted socialists by demonstrating that a government project could pay for itself, in this case, by generating power.
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At the time, Dilma was the Minister of Mines and Energy and her major project on the books was the 11, 200 megawatt Belo Monte dam, slated to be built along the Xingu River in the Amazon state of Para.
After a referendum in Tokushima in which the locals voted against a new dam, the mayor, a construction-ministry old boy, abandoned his support for the project.
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