Rui Costa: ‘It is necessary to flee from excessively ideological positions on the mouth of the Amazon’

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Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa GloboNews/Reproduction The Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, spoke to the blog this Tuesday (23) about the controversy over oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon and said that the government wants to “see the whole , follow norms and regulations”, but that it is necessary to avoid “excessively ideological” positions. “It is not true that any type of exploitation causes irreversible damage,” he said. Rui Costa called the ministries of the Environment, Mines and Energy, Ibama and Petrobras to a meeting this Tuesday afternoon in search of mediation in what has already become a clash within the government. “Petrobras’ request, which must follow the legal norms established by Ibama, is to drill a hole, to find out if there is oil there,” he said. “The Brazilian people have the right to know whether there is oil there or not,” he added. The minister also said that “between the hole for study and exploration” there would be a time span of no less than five years. Last week, the Ministry of Mines and Energy reacted to Ibama’s opinion, signed by the body’s president, Rodrigo Agostinho, who denied the study an environmental license, indicating a risk to the local fauna and original populations. “The comparison with Belo Monte is unfair and carries a great ideological content”, said Rui Costa, about the construction of the hydroelectric plant that was the subject of controversy and led to the departure of Marina Silva from the Ministry of the Environment in the second Lula administration. “Any debate, when it goes to the ideological field, loses rationality. We want to see the whole and discuss the best solution for Brazilians, including indigenous peoples, and for the environment,” he said.

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