Turbines in their backyard: How a wind farm disrupted life in a Brazilian town
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Read the original story in Portuguese Imagine a noise similar to an airplane flying over your house at a low altitude. This is what residents of Sítio Sobradinho, a community of Caetés city, a rural area of Brazil’s Pernambuco state, hear all day. Since 2015, after Cubico Sustainable Investments, a British renewable energy company, built
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Wind Project Regeneration
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Giovanna Carneiro, Author at The GroundTruth Project
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In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind
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Turbines in their backyard: How a wind farm disrupted life in a