Brazil's environmental regulator Ibama has asked oil company Petrobras for additional information on its plan to drill at the mouth of the Amazon river before authorizing Petrobras to test its emergency oil spill response, the agency's president Rodrigo Agostinho told Reuters.
gave up on their assets, even after investing in studies and due to difficulties in obtaining licenses for drilling.
The Foz region has little known geology and Petrobras has already run up 290 million reais in costs preparing for the spillage test. But Ibama views the area, known in Portuguese as the Foz do Amazonas, as environmentally sensitive and a decision on the drilling plan cannot be based on business interests and deadlines, Agostinho said in an interview.
"This is obviously a very sensitive region and Ibama treats it as a great priority, so there is no decision on a license or when it can come," Agostinho said. He said the previous government "did not carry out a technical assessment of the entire region, which should have been made, and this makes it difficult to assess the situation."Silva has said exploration at the Foz do Amazonas is "highly impactful" and must have a "strategic" environmental assessment.Our Standards:
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