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Subject: ACTION: SEND FREE FAX TO STOP DAMS IN AMAZON!
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***please circulate***

TELL ALCOA TO SCRAP PLANS FOR DAMS IN THE AMAZON!
SEND FREE FAX TO ALCOA AT
http://www.corpwatch.org/action/PAA.jsp?articleid=3D1017=

December 13, 2001

Dear Friends,

Alcoa, the world's largest aluminum company, has announced plans to 
construct at least three large dams in the Brazilian Amazon. The dams 
planned by Alcoa will flood indigenous reserves, including the territories 
of the Surui-Aiwekar, Karaj=E1, Apinaj=E9, Gavi=E3o, Krah=F4, an= d Krikati 
peoples, as well as protected ecological reserves and other critical 
wetlands in the rainforest. Tens of thousands of families will lose their 
homes and livelihood, including family farmers, fisherfolk, baba=E7u palm 
nut gatherers, and ceramic makers.
We need your help now to stop Alcoa from destroying communities and 
ecosystems in the Amazon.

No studies of the cumulative impacts of these and 13 other large dams 
planned for the Tocantins and Araguaia river system have been carried out. 
Indications are that these dams will destroy thousands of square kilometers 
of natural ecosystems along the river systems, and further spread poverty 
throughout the eastern Amazon.

These dams will guarantee a supply of energy for Alcoa's Alumar plant in 
S=E3o Luis (a project of Alcoa, BHP Billiton, and Alcan), and will permit 
the plant's expansion. This comes at a time when Brazilian consumers have 
been required to cut back their energy consumption due to power shortages. 
Alcoa is the single largest consumer of electricity in Brazil, and its 
Alumar plant receives one-quarter of the energy generated by the Tucuru=ED 
dam, which has had an enormous impact on the rainforest and its inhabitants.

Tell Alcoa to scrap plans for Amazon dams! Send a FREE FAX to Alcoa CEO 
Alain Belda by visiting 
http://www.corpwatch.org/action/PAA.jsp?articleid=3D1017= .

Thanks and best wishes,

Glenn Switkes
International Rivers Network

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SAMPLE LETTER (available on web)

Mr. Alain Belda
Chairman and CEO
Alcoa
801 Isabella Street
Alcoa Corporate Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5858
Fax: 1-212-836-2818
Email: investorrelations@alcoa.com
(Note: The Alcoa HQ is in Pittsburgh, but Mr. Belda works out of their New 
York office.)

Dear Mr. Belda:

We urge you to abandon Alcoa's plans for building
three large dams in the Brazilian Amazon. Alcoa
already shares responsibility for the serious
impacts of Tucuru=ED dam on the rainforest
and its inhabitants. These dams will flood
priceless ecosystems, displace thousands of
families from their homes and livlihood, and
flood indigenous reserves and protected areas.

Yet, no studies of the cumulative impacts of
these and 13 other large dams planned for the
Tocantins and Araguaia river system have been
carried out. Indications are that these dams will
destroy thousands of square kilometers of natural
ecosystems along the river systems, and further
spread poverty throughout the eastern Amazon.

Building these dams would be the height of
corporate irresponsibility. We hope you will
respond to this letter and do the right thing by
pursuing alternatives to these destructive dams.

Sincerely,


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For more info, contact:
Glenn Switkes
Latin America Campaigns
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703-1576
USA
tel: +1.510.848.1155
fax: +1.510.848.1008
<a href=3D"http://www.irn.org/" eudora=3D"autourl= ">http://www.irn.org

in Brasil:
tel/fax/messages: +55.11.3666.5853
email: glenns@ig.com.br



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