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Brazil Scraps Bid to Mine Amazon Natural Reserve

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-you-dig-it? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling Amazon reserve Monday after blistering domestic and international criticism.

President Michel Temer's office will issue a new decree Tuesday that "restores the conditions of the area, according to the document that instituted the reserve in 1984," the Ministry of Mines and Energy said in a statement.

Last week, environmental activist group Greenpeace said at least 14 illegal mines and eight clandestine landing strips were already being used by miners in the Denmark-sized reserve known as Renca in the eastern Amazon.

Greenpeace said this showed the risks faced by Renca even without Temer's earlier proposal for ending a ban on large-scale foreign mining in the mineral-rich region.

Temer's decree signed on August 25 on opening up Renca—rich in gold, manganese, iron and copper—was suspended days later after an international outcry.

Mining condoned by the government will not happen, but illegal mining will continue?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:03PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:03PM (#573884)

    Dude, they're probably going to cut down your beloved trees next week, instead of today. That's the point you're continually missing.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:12PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:12PM (#573891) Journal

    Dude, they're probably going to cut down your beloved trees next week, instead of today. That's the point you're continually missing.

    And thus discussing about a shitty site I don't care (and the death of which will not affect me in any way) becomes more relevant... exactly how?!?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:45PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:45PM (#573951)

      If slashdot is dying, what's that say about SN? /. Gets more traffic and comments on a day that it's down than SN gets on a good day.

      But keep repeating the meme slashdot is dying. Has netcraft confirmed it?

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:00PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:00PM (#573957) Journal

        If slashdot is dying, what's that say about SN? /. Gets more traffic and comments on a day that it's down than SN gets on a good day.

        And traffic at the site level (+followers, friends, likes and retweets at the personal level) is the sole metric that matter for success, right? That's... how's it called?... "reputation economy"**, isn't it?

        Wasting time in a pleasant way - who gives a dam' about.

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:38AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:38AM (#574183) Journal

        Yes but i enjoy these marvelous bastards on soylent. I do not enjoy who or what you are; you're dull.

        Soylent comprises bright, warped minds of all kinds, so it's not exactly like there's any kind of consensus or groupthink at work. But dullards and nincompoops are not welcome. Step it up with something meaningful or intelligent to say, or return to your bitter wastes.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:21AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:21AM (#574248) Journal
    I have to agree. The additional carbon that those forests will sink into the earth over the next week will be more valuable than some site I don't care about.