One more step in the fight against the belo monte hydroelectric PLANT in brazil nut

After years of mobilization, and a lot of technical evidence about the irregularities and inconsistencies in the process of licensing of Hydroelectric power Plant (HPP) Browne, the project suffered a major setback. The office of the Public Defender of the Union (DPU), and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) came out this month, a Civil Action (PCA), asking for the suspension of the licensing process, environmental, and that the impact of indigenous peoples the responsibility to conduct the exit out of the hands of the Secretary of State for Environment in the state of Mato Grosso (SEMA-MT), and then go to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama, the environmental agency of the federal government.

In the ACP, it was the best news of this week for those of us who see them every day, concerned about the progress of the case. Designed for the lower part of the Arinos river, the mill alagaria an area with a 94.7 km2 and had a positive impact on the residents of the municipality of Juara, where it is planned to construct, in addition to other surrounding counties, such as the Harbor of Rio grande do sul and to the New Horizon in the North, causing irreversible damage to the indigenous peoples, farmers, fishermen and local entrepreneurs.

“The river is not for the people who build it. It is built in by the nature. Just like all of you, men, white people, say that it is God who builds, we also have that knowledge,” he said, Yaiku Suya, the people of the Tapayuna. He said of the decision, and pointed out that the river is more important than all of that, if considered from the point of view of the economy. In addition to the expected impacts to the ancestral lands, the Tapayuna, the plant will directly affect them Despite that, the Munduruku, Apiaká and Kayabi indians who live in the area.

“We can see that with a lot of satisfaction that the MINISTRY and the DPU has provided this step by step account of the flagrant breach of this undertaking represents the rights of indigenous peoples,” says Andreas Fanzeres, co-ordinator of the Rights of Indigenous people in the Operation in the Amazon’s Native (OPAN). She also mentioned the importance of the application of the federalization of the enterprise taking into account the impacts to indigenous peoples, and the fact that it’s Energy Research Company (EPE), and a controversial one, will continue to be a priority for the federal government for the Program, Partnerships, and Investments (PPI). “It is a federal project,” he said.

Dilma Maria Mani Kawaiwete (Kayabi) the Indigenous Land of the Apiaká-Kayabi, it was observed that the ACP countries, is a result of lots of the union of communities in the defence of the river, and to the benefit of future generations. “We think of ourselves, our children and grandchildren, they are growing, so they are the living water, fish, game, fruits, and more. They need to know about the history of a life-story that we keep”.

Liliane Xavier, in the Network of the Juruena Living, shared on for the year of mobilization against the illegality of the plant. “We understand that it is a win, and that is a victory for the movement, the fight of all who have gathered to see how much it is important for the defense of the waters, especially in the context of the boiling in the climate that we’re in”.

Already, notabilizado by experiencing many setbacks, social and environmental, in Mato Grosso state, such as the “law of the Quota of Zero”, the permission for the mining to the Legal Reserve and the other, the governor of the state he currently is a major risk factor for the social rights of the population.

At a recent meeting, for example, on the WEEK, in spite of the irregularity, tendenciou to force the holding of a public hearing to continue in the case of the belo monte hydroelectric PLANT in brazil nut. “In view of the quality of the EIA-RIMA), and for multiple processes to be harmful from the point of view of social and environmental, that is, the communities and ecosystems there are involved, the chances of the agency indefira of the process is greater than the TRUTH,” she says to the clerk of the executive From, He Abandoned the Olive tree.

Thomas Jefferson was the Birth of Motion of the Affected by Dams (MAB), has highlighted the complexity of the region and of the region of the Vale do Arinos, and the need for in-depth studies. “We know that the Department of the Environment, has a history of spending a lot of fabric to shape the environmental impact,” he said.

As an example, he pointed to the case of Hydroelectric power Plant in Sinop. “It was a terrible Environmental Impact Study, which has generated, and it’s generating a lot of consequences for the violation of the rights of the people and the issue of the environment, which it was death for the fish, and the woods still in the lake, rotting away”, he criticized.

With the licensing of the PLANT Walnut in an environmental agency of the federal, it’s expected that there will be a greater sensitivity and responsibility in the process. “It is our expectation that there is a seriousness to what the impact will actually be considered to be measuring from the fact that the feasibility of this work, it is going to give less than 100 mw of power, and to examine seriously such a case, the agency file of this license. It is our expectation that as a civil society,” concludes Andreas Fanzeres.