Change occurs days after Lula’s public criticism to release Petrobras operation on the equatorial margin
The (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) will exchange the employee responsible for the environmental licensing of oil exploration. The change occurs days after the president (PT) publicly criticizes the delay of the environmental agency to authorize Petrobras to operate on the equatorial margin.
To the Poder360Ibama President Rodrigo Agostinho said the exchange was not motivated by political pressure. What happened was that coordinator Ivan Werneck Sanchez Bassères was selected to participate in a UN (United Nations) program. Werneck’s output should be made official in Official Gazette of the Union in the coming days.
Read the full response of Augustine:
“IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) reports that server Ivan Werneck Sanchez Bassères, current Environmental Licensing Coordinator of Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, has been approved in the“ United Nations – Nippon Foundation Fellows ”by 2025, organized by the Ocean Affairs Division and the United Nations Sea Law. The selection process was between September and November 2024 and the program will last 9 months, starting on March 26, 2025. After the program, the server is expected to return to Ibama.
“Its removal still depends on authorization from the agency, to be published in the Federal Official Gazette, and its eventual dismissal of the position in committee that currently occupies is a condition for its participation.”
Lula’s criticism
On February 12, President Lula that it was necessary to authorize Petrobras research by oil at the mouth of Amazonas, a basin located on the so -called equatorial margin. According to him, there is a desire to explore the commodity, And Ibama cannot be an organ against the government, even in the structure of the state.
“We need to authorize that Petrobras do research, that’s what we want. If we will explore later, it is another discussion. What is not possible to be in this lenga-lenga, Ibama is a government organ seeming to be an organ against the government ”he said in an interview with the radio Daily FMfrom Amapá.
Lula was not the only one to publicly criticize the environmental agency. On Tuesday (18.FEV), the Minister of Mines and Energy, that the position of Ibama about the requests of the state oil company to study the region is “Absurd”.
“It is absurd to sit on the table with Ibama and he does not point out what is missing, because Petrobras delivered everything that was asked. If there is a decision not to do, they have to explain […] a negative is formed, pointing to the reason for the decision ”said Silveira, in conversation with journalists.
