{"id":33103,"date":"2021-08-18T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=33103"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:33:53","slug":"the-owners-of-the-wind-how-the-installation-of-wind-farms-in-the-northeastern-hinterlands-impacts-traditional-communities","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/the-owners-of-the-wind-how-the-installation-of-wind-farms-in-the-northeastern-hinterlands-impacts-traditional-communities\/","title":"The \u201cowners\u201d of the wind: how the installation of wind farms in the Northeastern hinterlands impacts traditional communities","content":"

Chapada do Araripe is located on the triple border between the states of Cear\u00e1, Piau\u00ed and Pernambuco. This enormous landform, nearly 180 km in length covered by Atlantic Forest, Caatinga scrubland and, primarily, Cerrado savanna, has been historically inhabited by indigenous peoples and traditional communities who remain there to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past ten years, much of this tableland, which contains one national forest, one environmental protection area and one geopark, has seen its landscape drastically changed with the installation of the largest complex of wind farms in Brazil and one of the largest such complexes anywhere in Latin America. <\/span><\/p>\n

Inaugurated in 2017, the Ventos do Araripe III Complex, located on the border between the states of Pernambuco and Piau\u00ed, was built by the Brazilian company Casa dos Ventos Energias Renov\u00e1veis S.A. with financing from BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) and NDB (New Development Bank)<\/a>, the financial institution of the BRICS group of emerging counties formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n