{"id":148321,"date":"2019-11-25T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=148321"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:20:36","slug":"oil-spill-hits-643-areas-in-116-cities-in-northeast-and-southeast-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/oil-spill-hits-643-areas-in-116-cities-in-northeast-and-southeast-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill Hits 643 Areas in 116 Cities in Northeast and Southeast Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Number of Areas Impacted Could Be Bigger, as New Reports of Oil Stains Emerged over the Weekend<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Volunteers clean beaches in Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil.\u00a0 \/ AFP<\/p><\/div>\n

19 Nov 2019 – <\/em>A report disclosed by the Brazilian environmental agency Ibama shows that 643 areas have been hit by an oil spill that has been washing up thousands of kilometers of the country\u2019s coastline since early September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reports of oil stains have been found in 116 cities in all northeastern states, as well as Esp\u00edrito Santo, in the Southeast of Brazil.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the number of areas impacted could be bigger, as the Parna\u00edba Delta Ecological Sanctuary, in Piau\u00ed state, was also hit by oil stains on Saturday, and it is not included in Ibama\u2019s list.<\/p>\n

Six areas were reportedly hit in the Parna\u00edba Delta, a sanctuary that encompasses 70 islands and beaches.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian Army, the Navy, and the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMbio) have launched a massive operation to stop the oil from getting to the Parna\u00edba River. The Navy reported that 5,000 agents were deployed to clean-up operations, as well as 37 ships and 11 aircrafts.<\/p>\n

Another conservation area that could be hit is a manatee sanctuary in Porto das Pedras, Alagoas. Aquatic Mammal Foundation (FMA) agents are concerned about Astro, a rare manatee who lives on the coast of Sergipe state since 1998. The agents are monitoring it, but it is at risk of contamination. Mangroves and beaches nearby have been hit by the oil.<\/p>\n

Investigation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s Federal Police believe that a Greek-flagged ship could have caused the oil spill on Brazil\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n

The police reported that the tanker docked in Venezuela on Jul. 15, and set off to Singapore three days later.<\/p>\n

The spill probably happened between Jul. 28 and 30, authorities said, 700 kilometers (430 miles) off the Brazilian coast, in international waters. The Federal Police informed that only one oil tanker was navigating near the suspected origin of the spill.<\/p>\n

However, the Federal University of Alagoas announced on Sunday that researchers found another vessel that could be the source of\u00a0the leak. The name and the flag of the tanker were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Slow Response<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brazilian government has been decried for initially disregarding the oil spill. On Nov. 6, the Environment minister, Ricardo Salles, tried to explain the government\u2019s inaction by blaming previous administrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the problems regarding equipment or budgetary issues are the result of one thing: we were handed over a State that is broke. It\u2019s broke thanks to the policies of some parties that are represented here, which ultimately resulted in the imprisonment of president Lula<\/a> and so many other political leaders of this doctrinaire current,\u201d Salles said.<\/p>\n

A week later, on Nov. 11, after new oil stains were reported in Sergipe state, the federal prosecutor\u2019s office requested that the federal courts in the state ordered the government to hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss actions for protection, recovery, and compensation for the social and environmental damage resulting from the spill.<\/p>\n

The prosecution requested that the meeting was held last week, and the government could pay a R$1 million (US$250,000) fine a day in case of delay, and the money should be used to fund\u00a0social and environmental actions in the nine states of Brazil\u2019s Northeast.<\/p>\n

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Edition: Julia Chequer<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 brasildefato.com.br<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19 Nov 2019 – A report by the Brazilian environmental agency shows that 643 areas have been hit by an oil spill that has been washing up thousands of kilometers of the country\u2019s coastline since early September. Oil stains have been found in 116 cities in all northeastern states, as well as Esp\u00edrito Santo, in the Southeast of Brazil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":148322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,147,180],"tags":[1633,1003,547,239,401,1271,1632],"class_list":["post-148321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-energy","category-brics","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-brasil","tag-brazil","tag-brics","tag-environment","tag-marine-pollution","tag-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}