catch fish but now in those parts of the river that have been cut off and filled with silt some species of fish have disappeared others are scrawny and sickly. and. where they have. every two weeks members of the tribe paint their faces with dying. today the women and children are doing it the chief is worried that some of the men may soon switch to war paint it s the same. we always paint our faces in the traditional way because we feel like we re fighting a war. when we go to the capital to protest but we feel like we re waging a war against the government project for it down to our yak you move in with us in the right hands now. our rights have
been violated. them. we know that those rights are guaranteed by the federal constitution. back when the sand. not the government refuses to acknowledge those rights when they see the father mark boys beating on by force and so we have worried that the government may use the military to crack down on us e.c. iow not for me to. wind up behind you saif building these dams won t produce clean energy. it s gertie energy the government will have the money people on it s a conscience you know so jam is being built with our blood that we all worry less and we must stand and fight.
a lifetime project but for the local residents it s a disaster. you could tell most of you did the size of the project and all the parts we have east of bernie. greenhouse generate from gases and also in brazil we have a big hydro electric with a shell and then the government decided to build some dams around the country and here it was already in back to the area by when they build the trunk the. road we have a lot of bass to lose its report to any k. local patient even if it s a big huge construction there for that there was too much as mall then all their power plants are the same the same power. a consortium called north to energy is building the down the total cost is estimated at eighteen billion
dollars the federal government will pay half of that. the first of eighteen turbines started up in may two thousand and sixteen all the turbines are expected to be up and running in two years. once the bellemont a dam is completed he will be the fourth largest hydroelectric complex in the world with a total capacity of more than eleven gigawatts. we ve built of them here and we will give you part of the flow of the sheen who are evil crews an artificial reserve board that was built in this area and then channel off twenty kilometers that connects the main course of the xingu reaver so these are the official reserve and these are roy to the main power generation plant that is located here.
some people say that we are speeding up the process but easy in course we do this big projects so you can have some speed. up of these progress of this process. the consortium says that the dam will provide electricity for sixty million people. but critics play in the construction will cause social and environmental disruption nearly forty thousand people will have to be resettled opponents of the project say that electricity generated by the dam will benefit the regional mining industry not local residents. the federal government has pushed ahead with the dam despite efforts by prosecutors to delay it. i had it doesn t it and the situation is out of control when construction began and twenty ten the consortium promised to abate the law and protect forested areas. they were supposed to preserve tens of thousands of hectares of tribal land but as