# @pittsburghpg on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUSPJxFokk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8392150-pittsburghpg-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/ffacf6260e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-04-25T17:36:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@pittsburghpg) — https://gondola.cc/pittsburghpg

## Caption

"It electrified this South American country even as it drowned a jungle, so the 1.2-mile-long dam Alcoa built here to harness the Suriname River is more than stone and turbines. It’s a symbol, in this tropical land of 560,000, of progress, trauma and a global company’s ability to dominate a little country’s landscape and society.

Now the Alcoa Corp. is leaving Suriname, and the Afobaka Dam’s future rivets everyone from the capital’s dealmakers to the forest’s subsistence farmers." - The land Alcoa dammed. Link to our story in our bio.
#Alcoa #Pittsburgh #PGH #412 #SurinameRiver #SouthAmerica #AfobakaDam #PGPhotos

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## Tags

alcoa, pgphotos, pgh, surinameriver, 412, afobakadam, pittsburgh, southamerica

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