GUARDIAN.UK/ The on again, off again struggle to build the Amazon's mammoth Belo Monte Dam has moved forward with the rights awarded to a consortium of 9 companies called the Norte Energia. Bidding was stopped three times before a final appeal let the winner be announced. Greenpeace dumped tons of manure outside the offices of the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Aneel) in Brasilia and commented that it was "the legacy that the Lula government is leaving by insisting on this project." Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire said indigenous men from the Xingu were preparing their bows and arrows in order to fight off the dam. "I think that today the war is about to start once more and the Indians will be forced to kill the white men again so they leave our lands alone," he said. "I think the white man wants too much, our water, our land. There will be a war so the white man cannot interfere in our lands again."
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