IBAMA should authorize research in the Equatorial Margin

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With environmental rigor and resources for the energy transition, it is feasible to reconcile decarbonization and oil prospecting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed impatience with IBAMA for the delay in authorizing oil research in the region known as the Equatorial Margin, an oceanic strip from Amapá to Rio Grande do Norte. He described the delay in issuing the environmental permit as “lenga-lenga”. It is certain that Lula should…

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The change comes days after Lula publicly criticized the delay in authorizing Petrobras to operate on the Equatorial Bank; the agency denies political pressure

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IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) will change the official responsible for environmental licensing of oil exploration. The change comes days after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) publicly criticized the environmental agency's delay in authorizing Petrobras to operate on the Equatorial Margin. To Poder360, the president of IBAMA, Rodrigo Agostinho, reported that the exchange was not motivated …