Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Brazil gives Amazon dams go-ahead http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6286804.stm
By Gary Duffy BBC News, Sao Paulo
[President Lula wants to avoid a repetition of the power cuts of 2001]
Brazil has given the initial go-ahead for the construction of two hydro-electric dams to be built on the longest tributary of the Amazon River. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6286804.stm