As relações de poder na política energética brasileira: análise do processo comunicacional do planejamento do Complexo Hidrelétrico do Tapajós

Abstract

The production of electrical energy is considered strategic for the country's economic development, and was inserted on the economic policy by the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC in Portuguese). Between the sources of electricity generation, hydroelectric plants are responsible for almost 80% of Brazil's energy production. In this sense, Amazon becomes an strategic region for the planning for new hydroelectric plants, as in the Hydroelectric Complex of Tapajós, which is composed by five plants on the region of the Tapajós river basin, west of Pará, also one of the most preserved places in the country. This study analyzes the planning of the plants of São Luiz do Tapajós e Jatobá, starting from the comunicacional process that is established by the project "Tapajós Dialogue", created by the Tapajós Study Group, composed by companies that intent to study the environmental impact and economic viability. This study will consider a permanent source of tension and dispute between agents that in one hand defend a model of economic growth, and in the other hand defend the environmental preservation, and will analyze the relations of power in this phase of the projects.