Translated from Portuguese
More than 50 Indians of ethnicities Arara and Cinta Larga, armed with bows, arrows and burduna, are camped out, this morning, at the Hydroelectric Energy (UHE) Dardanelles, Aripuanã, where they claim the company responsible for clearing the environmental impacts rights has not fulfilled its obligations. The captain of the military police, Anderson Luiz da Silva, who accompanied the negotiations, said that the indigenous people are asking R $50 thousand per month to maintain two associations that were built in villages, in addition to two trucks and two cars.
At the beginning of the manifest around 18 employees were taken hostage, but through the PM they were released. By afternoon, the Indians met with those responsible for the company, who heard the reivundicações and shall issue any opinion this Tuesday (22), at 12:0.
This is the second manifesto of indigenous people in 5 months, in June, the natives claimed 5% stake in the profits of energy production, in addition to the transfer of two buses and the construction of housing, which were promised in the basic plan of the environmental assessment, to compensate for the damage caused by the work to about 1 thousand indigenous people of the region.
As Só Notícias reported, the venture, which has the capacity to generate 261 megawatts of energy from the Rio Aripuanã, was completed last year, after three years of work, but is not yet in operation. The development of a transmission line to the national energy system is still lacking.