But when it comes to the monstrous Belo Monte dam in Para state, what else is new?
Clean energy security, and more jobs for relatively poor people who live in undeveloped, unpopulated areas in Para state.
Protesters said they would permanently occupy the site, located outside the small jungle city of Altamira in Para state, north Brazil.
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Around 9 injunctions are currently out against Norte Energia, all filed by attorneys general in Para state, citing various problems with environmental licensing.
In parts of heavily deforested Para state, the average distance timber is carried to sawmills has risen from 17 kilometres to 70 over the past decade, encouraging loggers to move to other areas, says Roberto Smeraldi, of Friends of the Earth.
Of course, no dam ever runs at full capacity and because of the rise and fall of Amazon rivers during the dry seasons, the Belo Monte dam is expected to average around 4, 500 megawatts, making it still one of the most powerful generators of electricity in the country, and very important for mining operations in Para state.
The body of Obede Loyla Souza was found in dense forest close to his home in the northern state of Para.
An estimated 20, 000 people will have to be relocated in order to build Belo Monte in the desolate northern Amazon state of Para.
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Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, were shot dead in a forest reserve in the northern state of Para.
The trial began of 150 policemen accused of killing 19 protesters during a 1996 demonstration by Brazil's landless - farmers movement in the northern state of Para.
There are 9 injunctions against the construction of Belo Monte, all filed by district attorneys general in the state of Para, where Belo Monte is slated to be built.
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More than 750 land activists are thought to have been killed in the Amazonian state of Para in the last three decades, but only nine killers have been convicted.
The dam has been hit by several injunctions from federal prosecutors in the state of Para, where the dam is being built on the Xingu River, an Amazon tributary.
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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.
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