BRAZIL: PROJECT TO REDIRECT RIO SAO FRANCISCO GETS LICENSE DESPITE ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIONS

• Main Author: NotiSur writers
• Format: Text
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• Published: UNM Digital Repository 2007
• Subjects: BRAZIL: PROJECT TO REDIRECT RIO SAO FRANCISCO GETS LICENSE DESPITE ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIONS; Rio Sao Francisco; environmental objections; Brazilian government; controversial project to redirect the flow of the Rio Sao Francisco; Minas Gerais; Bahia; IBAMA; Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis; Pernambuco; Ceara; Paraiba; Rio Grande do Norte; Sergipe; Alagoas; Growth-Acceleration Program; Petronila; MST; Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra; negative impact on their ancestral lands; Free Land Encampment on the Esplanade of the Ministries; Jecinaldo Cabral; Coordenacao das Organizacoes Indigenas da Amazonia Brasileira; COIAB; Marcio Meira; Fundacao Nacional do Indio; FUNAI; Instituto Nacional de Colonizacao e Reforma Agraria; INCRA; Tamara Menezes; Partido Comunista do Brazil; Chico Lopes; The Hadley Centre climate-change model; GCMs; forest die back; river droughts; Agencia Nacional de Aguas; ANA; Back River
• Online Access: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/la_energy_notien/56; https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=la_energy_notien

The Brazilian government has obtained a license for a controversial project to redirect the flow of the Rio Sao Francisco in the northeastern part of the country. Environmental and religious activists have protested the project, worth billions of Brazilian reais, saying it could potentially kill the river, which runs principally through the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia to the Atlantic. The Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis (IBAMA) conceded a license to the government for the river-transposition project on March 23, although the license will not be the only hurdle the government must jump to begin the project.