The Minister of Mines and Energy, praised the role of his colleague and Ibama in analyzing the request for oil exploration in the Equatorial Margin.
“The last licensing stages of the Equatorial Margin are being overcome. These are technical stages, which have been conducted with great care, great mastery, by Minister Marina, by the Ibama team”, stated Silveira, during participation in an event at the
He also referred to Marina as “a minister who represents an international symbol of sustainability.”
The praise comes amid a veiled dispute in the government over the right of Petrobras to drill wells in an Amazon region believed to have a lot of oil. The government’s environmental area resists this authorization, while ministers from departments linked to politics and infrastructure are in favor.
Without hiding his favorable position, Silveira said that the government wants to “give the Brazilian people the right to know the natural potential we have in the mineral sector as a whole.”
“We always arrive at good policy, the policy of responsible and mature construction so that we can move forward”, he added.
Journalist Fábio Zanini traveled to Belém at the invitation of Esfera Brasil.
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