Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Doubt, anger over dams on Amazon tributary

Many in Brazil question human, environmental costs of projects

PORTO VELHO, Brazil - It is quiet here on the wrong side of progress. Hot wind blows dust across the dry bluffs. The brown river runs wide and placid.

In his painted wooden skiff, Francisco Evangelista de Abreu, a fisherman, motors up-current. Two river dolphins crest and submerge. His mind is elsewhere. The dam is coming.

"I don't know what's going to happen," he said. "I don't have any experience outside of this."

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