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first decided to suspend and ultimately cancel the environmental licensing process for the Tapajós mega dam in 2016, following a report published by the
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was expected to be the second largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil, after Belo Monte. It would have an installed capacity of 8,040 MW and its reservoir would cover about 400 km in the
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suspended the environmental licensing process for the dam due to its expected impacts on indigenous and river communities. In August that year,
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people. In its report, FUNAI recommends the demarcation of 1,780 square kilometers (687 square miles) of
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The plant would have been part of the proposed 12,000 megawatts (16,000,000 hp)
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