Brazil develops fossil-fuel fever

The South American nation, long an alternative energy powerhouse, is pushing ahead to drill into a major off-shore oil field

Brazil, long proud of its push to develop renewable energy and wean itself off oil, has a bad case of fossil-fuel fever.

An enormous offshore field in territorial waters

There has been virtually no public debate on the potential environmental costs of retrieving the billions of barrels of oil, a project one expert said will be as difficult as landing a man on the moon.