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The Chamber of Environment and Cultural Heritage (4CCR) of the MPF (Public Ministry of the Federation) asked Conama (National Council of the Environment) the votes of all the participants in the meeting held today by the agency, which culminated in the repeal of three resolutions – among them, the one that ends with the protection of mangroves and subtractions – and the approval of a fourth.
The objective of 4CCR is to deepen the analysis of deliberate measures to evaluate possible impacts, considering both the Constitution and current legislation, in view of the standards that regulate environmental preservation and sustainable development of the country.
After this analysis, the body will decide on a possible request for representation before the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, to act before the higher courts, or the members who act in the first instance.
Previously, the MPF appealed to the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region) for analysis and granted the request for the dismissal of the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, for administrative impropriety. Filed on July 6, the request is still pending before the Federal Court.
The action lists actions, omissions, practices and speeches of the minister that have caused the destruction of environmental policies. The delay in removing Salles, defends the MPF, can lead the Amazon Rainforest to a “point of no return”, that is, where it can no longer regenerate.
What Salles and Conama did
With a Conama controlled mostly by ministries and members of the federal government, Salles today approved the extinction of two resolutions that defined the permanent protection areas (APP) for mangroves and sandbanks on the Brazilian coast. The repeal of these rules opens space for real estate speculation in the vegetation bands of the beaches and the occupation of mangrove areas for shrimp production.
Chaired by the minister, Conama also revoked a resolution that required environmental licensing for irrigation projects, in addition to approving a new rule to allow packaging materials and pesticide residues to be burned in industrial ovens to transform them into cement.
Environmentalists, parliamentarians and Abrampa (Brazilian Association of Members of the Public Ministry of the Environment) asked that all items be removed from the agenda of the meeting of Conama, an institution that has a consultative and deliberative nature on environmental issues. There was also an attempt to cancel the meeting, through a lawsuit. They both failed.
