A Brazilian federal court has delayed bidding on a major hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest for the second time in less than a week. The $11 billion Belo Monte project was approved for construction earlier this year. A judge suspended the bidding last week to allow opponents to air their objections. That order was overturned days later, but on Monday the same judge responded with another ruling calling for a delay. Also on Monday, hundreds of indigenous activists rallied outside the Brazilian Congress to oppose the dam.

Amazonian Activist: “Large sums of money are pouring in from Europe, France, Switzerland, Germany, China and Japan. They are occupying all of the Amazon, building dams and water deposits for their own benefit. They don’t care about what will become of the Indian lands. We will be forced out of their lands. We won’t have homes. The indigenous population will be practically massacred.”