LULA WAS INDIGNANT: “We can’t do this project because of a catfish?” When Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, first announced plans to construct the country’s largest hydroelectric power hub, on the Madeira river, the environmentalists put a spanner in the works. Their primary concern was the dourada catfish that migrate up the river each year. But as the president vented his anger at how the catfish could scupper his plans, it was the financiers who put another catfish in the works.
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