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Ibama licences the Belo Monte dam in Lula’s second term

In February 2010 Ibama issued a preliminary licence for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu, a second-term industrial project later built under Dilma. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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In February 2010 Ibama issued a preliminary licence for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu, a second-term industrial project later built under Dilma. Indigenous and riverine objections sat.

Context

Eletrobras and Norte Energia sat. Neighbouring PAC is the parent investment brand. He did not pour the concrete.

PAC 2007 is neighbouring. Racial statute 2010 is a different rights file the same year.

The President of Brazil heads the federal executive, sanctions statutes, and commands the armed forces as a political principal. He does not write STF judgments, INPE satellite pixels, a US tariff proclamation, or a Venezuelan CNE tally. Congress, governors, Petrobras, and coalition partners share specific files.

Why it matters

The path is deforestation pressure and minority rights: a completed mega-dam licence on the Xingu is a dated displacement-and-forest instrument.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.5 · verified

    His government licensed. Ibama signed. Dilma later built. Riverine communities objected.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Brazil licences Belo Monte damReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Ibama — preliminary environmental licence for Belo Monte, 2010Ibama · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Ibama carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 2010 Ibama preliminary licence for Belo Monte during his presidency, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later displacement coefficient from that February as a personal tally, or that Dilma’s later construction was this hour alone.

Ibama signed. Dilma later built. Riverine communities objected.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Ibama licences the Belo Monte dam in Lula’s second term, not a later speech about Ibama licences the Belo Monte dam in Lula’s second term.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government licensed. Ibama signed. Dilma later built. Riverine communities objected. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  2. contributed toFactIbama licences the Belo Monte dam in Lula’s second term
  3. strengthensDrivers (3)Forced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Ibama licences the Belo Monte dam in Lula’s second term. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/br-belo-monte-2010

https://factrail.ai/facts/br-belo-monte-2010

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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