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studies in 2003 on the impact of the barrage Belo Monte, the waterway Teles-Pires<br />
Tapajós, the nuclear power station Angra III and the coal-fired power station Seival,<br />
and had concluded the these projects in part will have disastrous consequences. 261<br />
Angra III is the third nuclear power station in Angra, which is located on the Atlantic<br />
coast between two densely populated areas, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in<br />
a highly sensitive area. This nuclear project had already been planned by the military<br />
dictatorship in the seventies, and was implemented at immense costs – whose consequences<br />
continue to affect the Brazilian foreign debt even today - in conjunction<br />
with the German Siemens and after consultations with the German government. 262<br />
The original plan of the Brazilian military to develop the nuclear bomb never materialized,<br />
but the power stations were successively built – and now the completion of<br />
Angra III is on the agenda: Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, the president of Eletrobrás, expressed<br />
the hope that the French-German Framatome would invest 1.8 billion US-dollars for<br />
the completion of Angra III 263 :<br />
“Framatome ANP is headquartered in Paris with regional subsidiaries in the<br />
U.S. and Germany. With a total workforce of 14,000, the company is active in<br />
Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa. Its<br />
annual revenues total more than 2.5 billion €. In the company, AREVA has a<br />
66% stake and Siemens 34%.” 264<br />
Areva is owned (numbers from 31.12.2002) with 78.96 % by the state-owned<br />
CEA (Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique), 5.19 % belongs directly to the French<br />
state, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations owns a share of 3.59 %, ERAP 3.21 %,<br />
EDF 2.42% and TotalFinaElf 1.02 %. 265 Frameatome would receive a license for a<br />
period of 20 years for Angra III and would be able to not only cover costs through<br />
energy sales, but would also realize profits. 266<br />
According to general assessment the Lula-government has a strategical aim<br />
with its PPA focused on infrastructural measures, which could help to save production<br />
costs in other sectors, especially in the production chains of exportable goods,<br />
in order to achieve a better balance of payments in the long run. 267<br />
261 See: Urgewald e.V. Presseerklärung: Deutsch-brasilianische Infrastrukturinitiative nachhaltig ausgestalten.<br />
Brasilianische Umweltschützer fordern deutsche Investoren auf: Hände weg von riskanten Infrastrukturprojekten!,<br />
Berlin, June 2, 2003, http://www.urgewald.de.<br />
262 Lateinamerika Nachrichten: Das deutsch/brasilianische Bombengeschäft, special number of the Lateinamerika<br />
Nachrichten, Berlin (West) 1980.<br />
263 Estado de São Paulo, September 20, 2003.<br />
264 http://www.framatome.com.<br />
265 http://www.arevagroup.com.<br />
266 Agência Brasil, September 19, 2003.<br />
267 Amazonia.org.br: The new Pluri-Annual Plan is unveiled, September 2, 2003.