Sentences with phrase «madeira river»

The last major incident took place on 27 October, when a mob torched Ibama's office and four pickup trucks in Humaitá, in the state of Amazonas, after a crackdown on illegal mining operations in Madeira river.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

A Brazilian consortium of OAS, Eletrobras and Furnas plan to export most of this energy to southern Brazil, creating an energy corridor through Madre de Dios and Acre to link up with the power produced by the Madeira River Complex.

The Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex has two major dams — Santo Antonio and Jirau — in Rondonia, within 200 km of Pando, that will cost an estimated ten billion dollars, although the global financial crisis may create problems for this investment.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

Not only will that add to the competition for water, but environmentalists also worry that dams like the controversial project on the Madeira River in western Brazil will block the flow of nutrient - bearing sediments and fish migration routes.

Another kind of giant catfish known as the manitoa or piramutaba once rarely ventured upstream of rapids that predated the Madeira River dams.

But the dorado, which can grow to more than 2 meters in length, is disappearing from those waters, and scientists blame two hydropower dams that Brazil erected a decade ago on the Madeira River.

For instance, the forests of the middle Tapajós and lower Madeira rivers, where the newly discovered bird lives, are fast falling to loggers and ranchers.

Not exact matches

The hydrological data include daily water level measurements recorded in the Madeira, Purus, and Amazonas - Solimões rivers.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

The project would expand through the state, river basin by river basin, eventually covering the Amazon and some of its largest tributaries, including the Rios Negro, Purus, Jurua, and Madeira, an area measuring hundreds of thousands of square miles.

Ferry: West Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay) to Gibsons (Langdale) Ferry: Madeira Park (Madeira Park) to Saltery Bay (Powell River)

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Run - of - river configurations were selected for the Rio Madeira hydropower plants because they virtually eliminate the need for reservoirs and the subsequent flooding of land, greatly reducing the environmental footprint.