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Iberdrola Renovables, in consortium with Neoenergia, has been awarded the contract for nine new wind farms in Brazil, with total installed capacity of 258 MW. It is the second contract to develop renewable energy that the company has won in Brazil.
The contract award took place in Rio de Janeiro, during the second tender process for renewable energies in the country, organised by the Agencia Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (Aneel).
Iberdrola Renovables has committed to supply the electricity generated at these facilities to the Brazilian government for a 20-year period, starting in January 2013. The annual amount of the contract awarded yesterday by Aneel is about €60 million (130 million reales).

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A controversial plan to build an immense dam in Brazil's rainforest endorsed this week has attracted a formidable bloc of opponents: ecologists, indigenous Indians and Sting.

The facility, in Belo Monte in the northern state of Para, will be the third-biggest hydroelectric dam in the world once built, after the Three Gorges dam in China and Brazil's existing Itaipu dam.

It will produce 11,000 Megawatts of energy for Brazil's rapidly growing economy, with the project's total cost estimated at 11 billion dollars.

Critics have lashed out at the move, warning it will leave vast environmental devastation in its wake.

Some 500 square kilometers (190 square miles) of land will be inundated, and indigenous communities living along 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the Xingu River feeding it will be displaced from their traditional territories.

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A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has received a greenwashing award for illegally bulldozing land belonging to an uncontacted tribe in Paraguay.

The company, Yaguarete Pora S.A., received the prize from indigenous rights group Survival International for suggesting the deforestation of land in Paraguay's Chaco region was 'a noble gesture for conservation'.

While the company's website said it would create a 'nature reserve' on the deforested land, detailed plans submitted to the Paraguayan environment ministry showed that it was clearing two thirds of the 78,549 hectares it owns to make way for cattle ranches.

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"Brazil has held its first energy sale directed exclusively at wind power. More than 1,800MW of wind energy was contracted $82.8 per MWh. The proceeds of the auction will allow for the construction of 71 generation projects across five states in the northeast and south of the country."

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British authorities in Brazil said they were taking "immediate steps" after more than 1,400 tonnes of hazardous UK waste was reportedly found in three of the country's ports

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Responding to allegations that major Brazilian cattle producers are responsible for illegal forest clearing in the Amazon, Brazil's development bank BNDES will soon require processors to trace the origin of beef back to the ranch where it was produced in order to qualify for loans, reports Brazil's Agencia Estado. The traceability program aims to ensure that cattle products do not come from illegally deforested land.

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Twelve months ago, troops and police drove illegal loggers out of the Amazon in an effort to halt deforestation. A year later, the sawmills are starting to reopen - and unemployed locals couldn't be happier. Tom Phillips reports from Tailândia

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ArcelorMittal, a global leading steel company, participated in a supplier engagement programme in Brazil with a focus on sustainability and environmental issues and presented lately first results: Of the participating suppliers

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao announced Friday Brazil plans to build 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in half a century, with each having capacity of 1,000 megawatts.

"The general idea is to build one plant per year," he said during a visit to the construction site of Brazil's third nuclear power plant, Angra 3.

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