"The Hidden Costs Of Hydro: We Need To Reconsider World’s Dam Plans"

"As thousands of hydroelectric dams are planned worldwide, including 147 in the Amazon, a new study finds that the true socio-environmental and cultural costs of dams are rarely evaluated before construction. Were such factors counted into the lifetime cost of the dams, many would not be built."

Liz Kimbrough reports for Mongabay March 5, 2019.