The Indutries and Energy Resousces of Brazil.

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     Alison  

               Taylor

Contents

Energy

Page three

Industry

Page four

The Future

Page six

Energy resources in Brazil

H.E.P

        The main energy resource in Brazil is hydroelectric power (H.E.P).  There are problems with this cheap efficient energy.  H.E.P needs a lot of land and a big river, and a lot of natural vegetation is flooded when a dam is built, which mean that the local people haven’t got that land to grow their crops on which means that there will be less food for the community.  Flooding this land also means that the local people are forced to move and there don’t have a say in this.  When there built the Itaupu Dam, which is the largest H.E.P dam in the world they talked to, the local people to decided what to do about their houses and land.  There are also thinking about were the people will live after wards and there are also thinking about the environment more, which is a very new thing.  In 1997 Brazil was the 3rd largest H.E.P produces in the world.  Most of the H.E.P dam’s are in the south but there are one or two in the rest of the country.

        Here is a map of were they are situated.

Oil

        Oil is important in Brazil because the other types of energy only contribute a very little bit.  H.E.P is the only one, which has really made a difference. But oil does help a lot like in 1974 a hugh oil field was found about 50 to 130 km offshore but even since that 60% of Brazils oil still is imported from Marimba, Albacora and Maelin Relds.  New discoveries are being made all the time making Brazil more independent but this has only been able because of the new technology.

And Others

There are other types of energy in Brazil except for the main ones (H.E.P and oil) like Nuclear, Wind, Solar and Geo-thermal even though this makes a very little contribution and in some of the more remote places wood is still used for the main fuel.

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        Here is a table to show how much fuel is used and on what:

Brazil’s use of energy has increased by 15 times what it was in the 1950’s this is because there are now more people living in the cities and there are so many people living there that shantytowns have developed on the outskirts.

Industries in Brazil

Iron ore

        Iron ore is another big leader in the industry business in Brazil.  The Carajas Project is a plan to develop the poorer areas of Brazil in the Amazon this would provide ...

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