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Weekly Report - 22 April 2010 (WR-10-16)
BRAZIL: Tendering auction excites controversy
The government of President Lula da Silva has pushed ahead with a
tender process to select the developer of what could be the third-largest
hydroelectric dam in the world: the 11,000GW Belo Monte dam. It was held up by
court orders, amid claims of accounting irregularities and lack of proper
environmental analysis. The government, however, put together a team of over 100
lawyers to overturn these orders, leading to accusations that it was more
concerned about the negative impact a failure to hold the auction would have on
the presidential candidacy of Lula's favoured successor Dilma Rousseff than it
is about transparency.
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