Victory over a megadam buys displaced tribes only twenty years before the project returns

Evidence

That insurrection bought the Kayapo and allied Amazon tribes some time: two decades, to be precise. For as I write, the Xingu River water wars have begun all over again. In August 2010, Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, authorized construction on the $11 billion Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu, throwing into jeopardy the future of the Kayapo and a score of other tribes. Belo Monte—slated to be the world’s third largest dam and a destructive monster of gargantuan inefficiency—is catalyzing yet again a vital coalition of resource rebels. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 490