On the recommendation of the Federal Public Ministry, the municipality of Bom Jesus da Lapa should immediately suspend the environmental license granted for the construction of a solar plant in Bahia. The municipality has 30 days to respond to the MPF.
In the agency's view, the company Mini Solares do Brasil intends to install a renewable energy generation project in an area claimed by quilombola communities in the region, without these people being heard regarding the impacts of the project.
The installation of the Bom Jesus da Lapa Photovoltaic Complex was authorized by the Municipal Environment Secretariat in December 2022, valid for 3 years. However, according to the Federal Heritage Superintendency (SPU), the licensed area coincides with territory occupied by quilombos in Barrinha.
“The document identified, ed and demarcated the area requested by the community. Still, the population was disregarded in the licensing process”, says the note released by the MPF.
International treaties ratified by Brazil guarantee the right of traditional peoples to be consulted in advance on any undertaking that affects them directly or indirectly. Among them, Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and several judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
According to the MPF, the right to participation of traditional peoples is also provided for in Brazilian legislation, such as the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (Decree 6.040/2007) and Resolution 230/2021, of the National Council of the Public Ministry .
According to Public Prosecutor Marcos André Carneiro Silva, prior, free and informed consultation is not limited to one or a few specific meetings, nor is it to be confused with a public hearing. ““It is a process of intercultural dialogue, which has several phases and meetings with specific objectives and which depend on the particularities of each circumstance, people and project in question,” he said.
The MPF also calls for the immediate suspension of any licenses granted for activities, undertakings or constructions carried out within the perimeters indicated in the SPU report without respecting the right to free, prior and informed consultation of the affected people. It also requires that projects that would distort the territory traditionally occupied by the quilombola community of Barrinha, whether public or private, not be authorized.
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But don't worry, it will happen, they're just barking because no one offered them any money.
based on the authorization granted, the responsibility should lie with the competent bodies after the plant is in operation, this reason is that, if the parties come together, consensus will not simply prevail. canceling the license is absurd, there are plants in this country that will generate many much more relevant impacts and are still operating today
And once again, a project that generates jobs and income will be blocked in a place where poverty and misery predominate under the excuse of being “concerned about the environmental impact and cultural shock that the project could bring to the traditional peoples of Brazil.” Meanwhile, these people remain isolated from technology, knowledge and the benefits that the revenue could bring to them. Tell me, isn’t Brazil a joke?!
Our bahia will never move forward.
sad.
Congratulations on the MPF initiative, every citizen should have these s on the roof of their home, no more unnecessary deforestation.
Congratulations, Mr. Marcos André Carneiro Silva, for publishing the article, aiming to defend the rights of our indigenous peoples. Since the European invasion, our peoples have had their lands taken, have been sacrificed in various ways, and continue to be murdered or expelled from their lands without even prior notice. Congratulations on your work, Mr. Marcos André Carneiro Silva, attorney.
Would it be possible to inform readers of the size of the area that would be occupied by the project to justify this intervention by the public ministry?
Not that it's a regatta or anything like that, but I see many areas being handed over to NGOs and then being sold illegally to become slums and so on...
I just see.
According to the most recent anthropological studies, all peoples are migratory. There are no indigenous peoples. With less state bureaucracy and more autonomy for citizens, we would certainly have a developed country. Quilombolas should receive their lands and be free to manage them. The MPF and FUNAI are the perpetuation of patriarchy in Brazil.
As long as indigenous people and quilombolas are claiming lands from white people, they will always win, now I want to see when indigenous people start claiming lands from quilombolas and vice versa!
This is the portrait of Brazil that remains underdeveloped