A delegation of the Munduruku, Indigenous People from the Tapajos Basin in the Amazon rainforest, have come to Siemens UK’s headquarters in Surrey to demand a meeting with their senior management.
Siemens has been a key player in the last four megadams built in the Brazilian Amazon, and is one of just a handful of companies that can supply turbines for large-scale hydroelectric projects.
The Munduruku delegation, General Chief Arnaldo Kaba Munduruku and his senior advisor Ademir Kaba Munduruku, have travelled all the way from the Tapajos Valley deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest to ask Siemens to publically state that they will not participate in plans to build new dams on their ancestral lands.