Power on the River

A documentary about what happens when the corporate vision of progress enters into the lives of small rural communities in the interior of Brazil. A new hydroelectric dam is being completed in Aimores, Minas Gerais by the Consortium, a state energy company and a Brazilian multinational mining corporation. According to the Consortium, everything possible is being done to help the region adjust to the changes the dam will bring, but those living along the river and in the relocated town which was displaced by the dam tell a different story. A look at the often ignored consequences of hydroelectric power production and who and what are sacrificed in the process.

http://audience.withoutabox.com/films/powerontheriver

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• hydroelectric
• dam
• river
• Brazil
• documentary
• environment

[utkonos313]

Everybody has to make sacrifices to stop climate change. As far as possible the sacrifice has to be shared.

[eliotgrayfisher]

True. Unfortunately, that's not what's happening, and in most cases, especially in the tropical climates of countries in the developing world, dams actually produce lots of greenhouse gases as the organic material in flooded reservoirs decomposes, (check out Silenced Rivers, by Patrick McCully). It's not enough just to have "clean" "green" power production, it must be de-centralized (nuclear plants and large dams are not), so that corporations can't continue their system of exploiting people.

[simontimon2]

so you call creating jobs exploiting people.