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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: 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].
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(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.