Is Lula going to let Marina fight for the environment alone?
Marina Silva, the minister who lends international ballast to the environmental agenda of the Workers’ Party, went to bed Tuesday night feeling victorious in the debate over the environmental license to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon, but the next day she saw her power undermined and was blitzed by a predatory Congress that represents the interests of denialist agribusiness. And worst of all, with the Brazilian president’s consent
Government leader Randolfe Rodrigues sells out the environment
In denying the oil giant Petrobras a license to drill at the mouth of the Amazon, the president of Brazil’s environmental agency has shown that the Lula administration is willing to maintain its commitment to protecting the rainforest and combatting global heating. The greatest backlash has come from an ally, the government’s leader in Congress, heralding the onset of “friendly fire.”
Environment agency bars oil drilling in the Amazon
Ibama chief Rodrigo Agostinho says Petrobras oil project is “infeasible” from an environmental standpoint, in line with technical report first covered exclusively by SUMAÚMA. The decision is a boost to Environment Minister Marina Silva
Exclusive: Ibama study opposes Amazon oil plan
A technical report states that Petrobras' request is unfeasible from an environmental point of view, but the decision is up to the Institute’s President, Rodrigo Agostinho
Ribeirinho Territory under attack from far right
A joint campaign by Altamira’s ruralists and Bolsonaro-supporting senators has helped Norte Energia to delay resettlement of traditional populations expelled by Belo Monte
Lula faces civil society resistance to Amazon oil exploration
Eighty organizations have written to government ministers and public officials warning about the risks of exploration and the need to establish sound technical and scientific precautions to avoid catastrophe.
‘Do you think the government controls this kind of people?’
Competing for Bolsonaro’s supporters in the Amazon, former communist Aldo Rebelo is touring the north of the country arguing in favor of a project for Brazil that focuses on the military and the agribusiness sector
Right wing and agribusiness flock to former communist in Altamira
Aldo Rebelo, a former ally of Workers’ Party presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff, now mixes with Bolsonaro supporters and landgrabbers. He is promoting an agricultural-military political agenda in one of the epicenters of the destruction of the Amazon forest
No license renewal for Belo Monte unless standards improve, says Ibama chief
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA Rodrigo Agostinho, the new president of Brazil’s environmental protection agency Ibama, says the "life of the river" will be paramount in deciding whether to extend the operation of the destructive dam on the Xingu. On the Petrobras application to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon river, he insists “every possible and imaginable impact” must first be examined.
Indigenous people finally get a say in oil project at mouth of the Amazon
Nine years after the licensing process for Block 59 began, the people of the Oiapoque region are granted a first meeting with Petrobras in which they reveal the project is already impacting their lives. It is very late to consult them. An accident simulation test, which is regarded as the final stage of the process, is scheduled for this month
