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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?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:32PM (2 children)
Oh my goodness. Submit the slashdot story already. I'm sure it will be published and then you can chew your fingernails to the nub there and be on-topic. it's rather a dick move to do this. Ok, you're not interested in the amazon rain forest. Fine. But don't hijack the thread for something else.
I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish anyway. Are we supposed to be upset that slashdot is having trouble? Are we supposed to feel bad that we left, or something? Honestly, i don't care what slashdot does or does not do, and i was a vocal booster of that community back in the day. They sent us Soylentils the firm and clear message that they didn't give a fuck what their community thought, so we left. I hope they fix their technical issues. I hope they return to the ethos that made them solid back in the day. But the hyperventilating about it strikes me as weird.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:53PM (1 child)
I deleted that submission. Even an aristarchus submission is more newsworthy than some downtime over at /. The user(s) who want to talk about it appear to be refugees who need their trolling fix.
As for SourceForge, if you want to know more you can tweet at this guy [twitter.com]. If you bash BIZX, LLC enough, maybe he will swing by and correct the record [reddit.com].
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:26AM
That sucks. Eth is our troll.
I don't ever visit slashdot anymore. Is that the caliber of user they have left? I'll take soylent's motley crew any day.
Washington DC delenda est.