Approach to managing displacement impacts

In 2024, we advanced the Integrated Actions Project in the Reduced Flow Stretch (TVR), benefiting riverside communities and indigenous peoples of Volta Grande do Xingu, with a focus on qualified listening and social participation. A census survey was conducted with 1,114 families to monitor living conditions in these communities. 

Actions were taken to improve sanitation, health, education, mobility, access to drinking water, fish farming, cocoa cultivation and river navigation. In 2024, 33 water supply solutions were implemented with technical support from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and 25 satellite antennas were installed, totaling 128 connectivity structures maintained by Norte Energia. Two Communication Centers and the Communication Network with the Population were also maintained. 

In partnership with local municipalities, the goals for improving land access were met, advancing mobility and production flow. In the production axis, 400 families received technical support and supplies, and participated in workshops, strengthening family farming and food security. 

In 2024, seven people were resettled on the banks of the main reservoir and another fifteen in the Tavaquara Collective Urban Resettlement, with the consent of Ibama. Considering the last three years, the total number of individuals resettled was 148. All of these actions are part of the mitigation and compensation measures provided for in the Belo Monte HPP Operating License, as part of the Riverside Project. 

In support of fishing activities, production projects were developed, reparation payments were made, and fish farming was promoted, which included 45 families and generated more than BRL 109,000 in income. In Anapu (PA), 20 other families were considered eligible and will begin production in 2025. In all, investments aimed at riverside dwellers and fishermen totaled BRL 24.8 million in the year. 

In an urban context, Norte Energia carried out 74 environmental education actions, with 2,176 resettled persons in Altamira, in addition to offering social and psychological assistance to 90 families living in vulnerable conditions. Social monitoring over more than a decade has shown improvements in the living conditions of relocated families. 

In the resettlement areas, over 80% of families remain above the poverty line with access to adequate infrastructure. In 2024, the requalification of the Altamira waterfront, as provided for in the PBA, began, consolidating the social and environmental measures undertaken by the Company.