The route chosen in 2014 for the Tucuruí transmission line , bringing electrical power from Manaus to Boa Vista , follows the BR-174 federal highway . of the line would cross the Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory . In February 2016 a federal judge issued an injunction that prohibited work on the line until the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous people had been consulted . He said IBAMA had ignored the requests of the indigenous people and forced through the project without consultation , as required by the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989 . No public hearings had been held in the Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory . A leader of the indigenous people said could Funai not speak on their behalf concerning the project . Construction would involve hundreds of workers entering the territory . In March 2016 a federal judge dismissed the case , saying there had been undue judicial interference in the licensing process for the project that was of a national strategic nature and that would be undertaken entirely on federal land along the BR-174
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory