WILL WE HAVE OUR FRACKING IN THE AMAZON!?

[Reproduced from  www.amazonia.org.br]

Indigenous people who inhabit the region of the Javari Valley, West of Amazonas, fear that the activities of mining companies and oil companies developed near the javary River, on the Peruvian side, cause environmental damage in the Brazilian side in the next two years.

Why such a fuss is that the Federal Government intends to take the role the business plan of a huge block of 19 thousand km², which goes from the North to the South of the Amazon state of Acre, situated between protected areas and indigenous lands of the Javari.

The goal of the operation, according to reports of indigenous leaders, is to open areas for private activities of shale gas, what worries environmentalists and indigenous to the region. That's because the activity requires the introduction of method "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing for extraction.

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Prior to the injection of this chemical cocktail explosions are conducted underground to break the sedimentary rocks. Such explosions, according to the testimony of the co-ordinator of the National Indian Foundation (Funai), Bruno Pereira, are constant and heard for miles around, causing fear among the natives.

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According to Dr Luiz Fernando Scheib (doctor of science in petrology and mineralogy, Federal University of Santa Catarina) notes that Brazil still has no experience in the exploitation of shale gas, natural gas and oil only. This kind of exploitation is, according to the researchers, being studied in Brazil.

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