Economics

Mais um desiste de usina no rio Madeira; leilão terá 3 participantes

Friday, November 30, 2007
A Aneel (Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica) informou nesta sexta-feira que o leilão da usina de Santo Antônio, a primeira no complexo do rio Madeira (RO), terá apenas três participantes, já que dois dos interessados não realizaram o depósito e retiraram as senhas para o acesso ao sistema do leilão. Para os proponentes, as garantias corresponderam a 1% do valor do investimento.Os desistentes são a estatal Eletronorte e o consórcio Norte Energia, formado pelas empresas Alupar Investimentos S/A (37,5%), Indústrias Metalúrgicas Pescarmona (15%), Schahin Holding (27,5%), UTC Engenh

Impasses and Controversies of Hydroelectricity

Monday, February 19, 2007
Article by Célio Bermann in the journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo

Environmental Impacts of Tucuruí Dam

Monday, January 1, 2001
Philip M. Fearnside (2001) "Environmental Impacts of Brazil’s Tucuruí Dam: Unlearned Lessons for Hydroelectric Development in Amazonia," Environmental Management 27:3.

Uganda Dam Could Drown Local Jobs, Adventure Tourism

A Ugandan guide takes tourist through rapids on the Nile in Uganda. Locals are benefitting from jobs in the rafting industry
The Ugandan Ministry of Energy is planning to construct a large hydropower dam on the Nile River at Isimba Falls in Uganda. Plans were pushed through with minimal consultation with the people who will be affected. Many stakeholders and local people were not consulted at all, and only found out through newspaper reports that construction had begun. The dam will create a large reservoir of around 28km2, and will have sever negative impacts.

Conservation Strategy Fund Report: Risk Scenarios and Environmental Issues around the Belo Monte Dam

Monday, August 16, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Amazon region is the final frontier and central focus of Brazilian hydro development, which raises a range of environmental concerns. The largest project in the Amazon is the planned Belo Monte Complex on the Xingu river. If constructed it will be the second biggest hydroelectric plant in Brazil, third largest on earth. In this study, we analyse the private and social costs, and benefits of the Belo Monte project. Furthermore, we present risk scenarios, considering fluctuations in the project’s feasibility that would result from variations in total costs and power. Download the

Sobre a "Energia Barata de Belo Monte"

Friday, July 31, 2009
"Insanidade é fazer sempre as mesmas coisas, esperando resultados diferentes"Albert Einstein.A todo momento a mídia está divulgando entrevistas com representantes do governo federal ou diretores da Eletronorte e Eletrobrás anunciando as datas para a emissão da licença prévia e o leilão da usina hidrelétrica de Belo Monte. Uma última declaração do ministro de Minas e Energia, Edison Lobão, nos chamou a atenção. Afirma que "a sociedade não pode ser penalizada com energia mais cara, porque os ambientalistas e ONGs atrapalham a construção das hidrelétricas". Como pôde afirmar q

Lula Promises not to Shove Belo Monte Down Our Throats

President Lula Meets with Social Movements to Discuss Belo Monte Dam
President Lula Meets with Social Movements to Discuss Belo Monte Dam Ricardo Stuckert, Presidência da República In a potentially historic meeting, social movements and indigenous people fighting Belo Monte Dam met with President Lula last week. Those present reported that Lula promised to initiate a dialogue on the proposed project, and that the president guaranteed in his own inimitable way that that "Belo Monte will not be shoved down anyone's throat." But, how likely is Lula to slow down or halt the electric sector's juggernaut that is primed to push the projec

Brazil's National Destruction Bank Does it Up Big

Image BNDES
Image BNDES Archive The headline in today's Folha de São Paulo daily stated ironically "Jirau, suspended by court order, gets biggest loan ever from BNDES" This week, environmental agency Ibama fined the consortium (headed by Suez) building Jirau Dam on the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon US$408,000 for building a coffer dam without following its proscribed construction plan, and construction was suspended. This marks the second time in a month that the consortium has been punished for violations of environmental regulations. But yesterday, the project, which

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