A usina hidrelétrica de Balbina e as populações locais: um retrato da comunidade Carlos Augusto Nobre Ribeiro

Abstract

This dissertation work has as objective to study the interactions stablished between the local population and the Balbina hydroelectric power station. We have as focus the Carlos Augusto Nobre Ribeiro Comunity. In this dissertation we select the pattern of generation of hidraulic energy to get a little knowledge about how this system works and it importance to a region development. This way we opted to study the Balbina hydroelectric power, detaching principally, it director paper in respect of the generation of energy to development of the Amazonas State. Since that we emphased the social situation of the communities located in ebb tide of the hydroelectric power, with emphasis to Carlos Augusto Nobre Ribeiro comunity. That comunity was choosed because it did not present cataloging in the Director Plan of the municipality of Presidente Figueiredo and because it has relative importance about the social environment aspects. In this study we got evidences that the hydroelectric power was built in an illconsidered region, because the Uatumã riverbed did not present in the period of the building, suficient conditions to generate the energy that would feed Manaus Free Zone, because this region has pratically a plane raise. The building of the hydroelectric, contributed to since alterations in the scene, populational displacements as also implatation of substructures that nowadays are responsable for the raising of the Presidente Figueiredo municipality. This study showed us that hydroelectric power, in spite of big impacts they generate, they are yet considerated the renewable fountains of energy and cheap also if we compare to the density of energy in other fountains. From the critical view of several authors on the impacts resulting from the construction of the hydroelectric plant of Balbina, we noted that the size of the pervasive impacts on the same line of intensity, since studies have shown the multiplicity of effects on local communities.