A federal court in Brazil suspended the operating license of Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the grounds that the government has not completed basic sanitation work in the city of Altamira before filling the dam’s reservoir. This is not the first time the Belo Monte project has been stalled for legal issues. In January 2016 a federal judge in Altamira suspended the dam’s license for failure to build a safety net for local communities, especially the indigenous communities that were to be affected by the dam. This comes after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights agreed to try a case against the Brazilian government and dam consortium for failing to provide sufficient protections for local communities. Later in the year, controversy continued, as it was discovered that the bidding process for the dam’s construction was implicated in one of the country’s biggest corruption scandals. For the full story, see http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-energy-idUKKBN17927L; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/26/brazils-leaders-face-a-d…; and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/brazil-belos-monte-dam-de…;