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Concerns about methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte dam

Jon BeaupreDecember 29, 2011

Fukushima may have made 2011 a transformative year for energy – how we make it, its impact on us and the world around us. But it's not just Europeans who have been reviewing their energy choices.

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Brazil gets most of its energy from a renewable source – hydroelectric dams. This year it approved a massive new project: the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the northern state of Para.

Report: Jon Beaupre, Altamira, Brazil / Claes Andreasson