In the end of the licensing process for the PROJECT Browne

After more than a decade, social movements, resistance and the Secretary of State for the Environment, the state of Mato Grosso (the TRUTH) to finally put an end to the environmental license for the PROJECT Browne, on Monday (18). The case, which was pending since 2012, apart from the peace of a good part of the communities in the north-western part of the state, it is, however, refused file (search for the link, case no. 346973). In the expert opinion of the department, which said the filing was filed one day after the office of the Public Defender of the Union (DPU), and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) filed a Public Civil Action (PCA), asking for the suspension, and the federalization of licensing.

During the licensing procedure, the person concerned has not submitted the information, and the technical studies required by the TRUTH,” said the Department on the subject of the filing. The interested party is the federal government, which kept the plant in the Background of the Partnership and Investment (PPI), making it an energy project as a priority. By the middle of the Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE), the Study of the Environmental Impact of this was delivered in the year 2015, it is no longer up-to-date. This is one of the reasons alleged for the TRUTH to go ahead with the license.

 “This is a project that, from the very beginning, it was very weak, with the studies of out-of-date, a number of gaps, and the lack of access to information for the population,” said Liliane Xavier, in the Network of the Juruena Live. “When it is listened to by the authorities, and it is observed, for us it is a big achievement,” he said, noting, however, that for a long time, they were not listened to.

“It has been a joy for me when we got the news,” said Rousseff, Mary, He, out of the Land of the Indigenous (IT) Apiaká-Kayabi. She told a story of a trip for entrepreneurs in their land, and the role of women is to deny the project. “We made a decision to say no to the ones that were there. Today, the men thank the women, Kawaiwete, they made the decision without any fear,” he said. In spite of the refusal of the people to the ENTITY, the process to be followed in the process of losing.

With an area of wetland from a 94.7 km2), the station is also reached directly from the residents of urban and rural farmers and entrepreneurs in the municipality of Juara of a New Horizon in the North, and from the Harbor of Rio grande do sul.

In the Study, the Component of the Indian (ICF), have pointed to the impossibility of the enterprise from the point of view of its impact on the indigenous peoples. An example of this is the risk that come straight from the people in the IT Apiaká-Kayabi, for the fulfillment of the feast of the yellow-spotted river turtles. For Despite that, there was also concern about the loss of a feather art, game, fish, and, especially, the cup used in the ritual of marriage. ‘The huge impact, the one that most concerned us, Despite that, it was the loss of the raw material, it is only there that the river, which is the tutãrã, we use a lot in the rituals of the marriage are traditional people,” said the teacher in the process of designing a Paimy, IT Erikpatsa. In addition, the peoples of the Munduruku, Apiaká and the Tapayuna would be directly affected by the plant.

The executive secretary of the Forum, a Popular social and Environmental-of-state of Mato Grosso (From), Herman de Oliveira, said the victory of the rejection, to the social movements and the engagement of civil society in order to stop the progress of the case at the first signs of irregularities, and that it had three attempts at the public hearing in a hasty manner, and without any consultation with the community.

“I attribute primarily to the exercise of social control, by the organisation from the Consema [Conselho Estadual de Meio Ambiente]. After that, the whole process of the internal organization of site visits, projects, and all of those involved, and to be filled with the same spirit that was to make it impossible to conduct a public hearing at the outset of the process for the licensing of the fact that the plant,” he said. “It was the holy sacrament of the eucharist at the last meeting, along with the TRUTH, pointing out the many issues that surround it, or got into infinite discussions on the continuation of the license and the possibility of the construction of this power plant,” said He, Oliveira, citing the study, which was presented to the technical team of the WEEK for may 2023 pointing out the flaws in the assessment of the cumulative impacts of the undertaking.

Genir Piveta of the Family, in the community of the Quarry, in Juara, reflected in the fact that there are other possibilities for the generation of energy, the less devastating to the environment, We do not need to end up with the nature, the animals, the fish, and get people out of their land in which they live and earn their livelihood, as we do here in the community, the staff of the village, and the folks on the other side of the river. She pointed out that the power PLANT in brazil nut does not prosper, it also protects the river and the others the front, which could come in the wake of the course.
  
 Thomas Jefferson was the Birth of Motion of the Affected by Dams (MAB), has commented on the paper that is suitable for the TRUTH to be rejected, and to file the license and this is important for civil society, to see how it is possible, in a way that is organized and collectively, to reverse the process. “This is encouraging from the point of view of what the fight is really going to happen, gives us courage to go on.” He noted, however, that, in spite of the important news of the closure of the process and, in TRUTH, all must be kept, organized, and in the struggle to remove the PLANT Walnut in the ten-year Plan for the Expansion of the Power of the federal government. “We have to celebrate this occasion, that even in this case. And, God willing, we will have the victory, the greater will be canceling the power plant,” he said, also Genir Piveta of the year.

Liliane Xavier, in the Network of the Juruena Alive, he argued that the licensing process, environmental, and other impacts to the lives of the communities they are built in a participatory manner and within the law. “We are not against progress, but it is what it is, a breakthrough that actually cares about the lives of the people who will live, who live in, work in this area, and that they comply with the laws, regulations and agreements to which Brazil is a signatory,” she adds. 

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