BRASIL: Judge Blocks Building Massive Belo Monte Dam.

BBC/ With Map/

    In a setback to Brasil's decrepit infrastructure and rapidly growing power needs, federal Judge Ronaldo Desterro blocked construction of the Amazon's massive $11 billion usd hydro-electric Belo Monte dam...because of environmental concerns.
    Desterro cited 29 environmental conditions not met like the recovery of degraded areas and measures to guarantee the navigability of rivers.
    He also stopped BNDES, the national development bank, from financing the project.
    The11,000-megawatt dam would be the biggest in the world after the Three Gorges in China and  Brasil's own Itaipu. 
    Three previous injunctions have been overturned.

    Environmentalists claim the 6km dam threatens indigena groups and would make as many as 50,000 people homeless.