Aproveitamento Hidrelétrico de Belo Monte: uma política de Estado.

Abstract

In the present study, the Public Civil Actions filed during the course of the environmental licensing process of Belo Monte Hydroelectric Use were mapped, with special attention to the players and their speeches, and it was possible to identify that the sustainment of this development policy was relied on a developmental discourse that had, throughout the process, faced progressive inquires eroding their apparent "totality" of representation. It is a policy based on in a close approaching discourse to the times of "developmentalism" in Brazil, concerned to make a historical-theoretical digression of development policies relied on the hydroelectric potential of the Amazon region of the 60s and 70s for a comparison with the development policy of the so-called "new developmentalism" of the 2000s, also supported by hydroelectricity. Considered as a state policy, which experienced different political periods, the military regime and the democracy, the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Use was played closed attention to the interaction between the different players involved in this long term process and particular emphasis on the investigation of the government action and the Public Prosecution.