Brazilian Power Minister accuses Guyana of “sucking” Brazilian oil

This Monday, Brazil’s Power Minister, Alexandre Silveira, blamed Guyana to “suck” the Brazilian oil reserves positioned off the coast of the Amazon.

Throughout a press convention he led in Belo Horizonte, he stated: “Our brothers from Guyana are sucking the riches of Brazil, they’re exploring the forex, in a block acquired through the Dilma authorities (Rousseff, former Brazilian president from 2011 to 2016)”.

Silveira’s declare continued, making certain that Your nation has the fitting to “know its riches”. The official described as “dogmatic” the place of those that oppose the exploitation of the deposit for environmental causes.

In keeping with Brazil’s Power Minister, the Brazilian Atmosphere Institute (Ibama), research the request of the state oil firm Petrobras to discover the realm.

The exploration space is taken into account delicate, as it’s positioned in entrance of the mouth of the Amazon River on the Brazilian facet.

For her half, the Minister of the Atmosphere, Marina Silva, stood earlier than the Minister of Power of Brazil, who defended the actions of Ibama and He identified that the allow or rejection of exploration within the environmental discipline is ruled by technical and never political standards..

Final yr, Ibama rejected Petrobras’ request attributable to “inconsistencies” within the research that the state oil firm introduced on the doable environmental impression of the exploration of the realm.