ABSTRACT
The office of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) is located near the eastern shore of the artificial Lake Paranoa. On 19 April 2016, IBAMA suspended the environmental licensing process for the Sao Luiz do Tapajos project. This chapter explores how the anti-dam activists continued to repoliticise the project by foregrounding its archival in the political context of IBAMA’s decision, asserting that when this context changes, the project may well return. It discusses the ways in which anti-dam activists continued to ‘scale up’ their opposition to the Sao Luiz do Tapajos project, locating it within a wider contest between local communities and encroachment on their territory, and highlighting how emergent threats had not receded. The Bolsonaro administration represents a new stage in the construction of hydroelectric dams in the Brazilian Amazon.
