The, which should be, has as its sole pending the inclusion or not of mining in the text, according to deputies that debate the theme.
The text initially passed the House in 2021. At the time, it included a device that excluded this sector from the proposal.
However, the rapporteur and former minister of agriculture-or that was, included mining within the scope of the new licensing process.
Back in the House, the deputies claim that, as the issue was not debated among them initially, there is no consensus on this point.
The rapporteur, Zé Vitor (PL-MG), has already presented new versions of the text, all excluding project mining. To his colleagues he says he will try to pacify the issue to include the sector in the proposal.
As the bill has passed the House once, now the deputies can only accept the changes made by the Senate, reject them and return the previous text or make writing adjustments without moving the merit.
Zé Vitor expects to have the final writing ready for voting by this second, and it is possible that points without agreement are defined in the plenary or move to a parallel project that still needs to be presented.
The points most criticized by environmentalists should be maintained and approved, for example the emptying of Conama (National Council of) and the highest autonomy of state and municipal agencies to work in licensing – the environment minister, had been trying to make changes in these excerpts.
They also remain, granted by the promise of compliance with previous requirements established by control bodies, and the device created by Senate President David Alcolumbre (Union-AP) and which allows government chosen projects (such as oil exploration in Foz do Amazonas) to undergo an analysis that ignores risks.
Gift Link: Did you like this text? Subscriber can release seven free hits from any link per day. Just click on F Blue below.
