The International Rivers Network has nominated Alcoa, the world’s largest producer of primary aluminium and aluminia, for the Public Eye Award in the category «Environment» because of its participation in the construction of several dams which may have disastrous consequences for human beings and the environment. Repeated breaches of environmental standards in existing Alcoa production plants also justify the nomination. The International Rivers Network demands that Alcoa halt its construction of planned dams in the Brazilian Amazon and the Karahnjukar Hydropower Project.