Marina Says that Creating a Conservation Unit in Amapá Does Not Prevent the Exploration of the Equatorial Mars

The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, stated, in a public hearing at the Inferastructure Commission in the Senate, that the four conservation units in the state of Amapa do not prevent the prospect of oil in the equatorial margin. “The efforts we are making there in the Amapa do not affect oil blocks. The distance between the blocks and the conservation units is 137 kilometers closer at the nearest point”, he stressed…

The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, said on this Wednesday (27), in hearing the Senate Infrastructure Commission, that the creation of a new marine conservation unit in the Equatorial Marge, in Amapa, will not be an obstacle to the research and exploration of oil in the region. “In the creation process [of the Equatorial Marge conservation unit] it is already established that oil, gas, ports, what to do, is already said in the same pr…

The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, said that the creation of four conservation units in the Equatorial Marge, in the north of Brazil, does not prevent the economic exploitation of the region. In a public hearing in the Senate this Wednesday (27) said that, contrary to the points made during the session, Ibama is not delaying analysis in a proposal. “The Ibama is not easy or difficult to comply with the law”, he said. The Infrastructu…

Minister for the Environment participated in a hearing in the Senate; to parliamentarians, she said that studies for this unit were prior to the issue, starting in 2005