Mining saw “golden years” under Bolsonaro, report says
Environmental surveillance groups Observatório da Mineração and Sinal de Fumaça this week launched the report Dinamite pura: como a política mineral do governo Bolsonaro armou uma bomba climática e anti-indígena (“Pure Dynamite: How the Mineral Policy of the Bolsonaro government set up a climate and anti-indigenous bomb”), in which specialists examine how the measures favoring the mining sector came to be, as well their effects, which still require attention from the current administration.In the experts’ view, the decisions implemented in the period can be summarized as “the explosive combination of contempt of territorial and human rights and sophisticated corporate lobbying.” The document notes that the implementation of actions of interest to the sector’s investors was made possible ...