The Agricultural Engineer Nelson Tembra returns to the site
Acorda Pará, to tell the readers, with details, the
true "Cross Way" that he has been facing in the
case that involves the environmental licensing of the project
bauxite of the Company Vale do Rio Doce, in the municipal
of Paragominas.
Before to present his reasons and to show the documentary
evidences, he highlighted what constitutes the main focus
of the lawsuit, making a small analogy inside of the area
of professional performance of the own Magistracy. "Imagine
that a Magistrate modified the essence of an Opinion or Vote
of another Magistrate, without the authorization and the knowledge
of the same; and did those modifications violate legal norms
and did they benefit those in fact what infringed the laws
and that the former, that was signatory, susceptible to answer
to process before their pairs in the tribunals? It is what
happens in the present case, kept the due peculiarities among
the juridical and technical" sciences.
He laments the verification that neither the lawyers of the
Company Vale do Rio Doce seem nor to have read the process,
or that they just try to win time with measured procrastination.
"The facts are thoroughly documented and proven in the
Solemnities and already analyzed. Not for a lot, but by Regional
Council of Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy - CREA/PA,
through the Opinion of the Technical Consultantship, of December
15, 2004, having been ratified through the Juridical Opinion
nr. 156/05, of the Lawyer's Plowing Dr. Franklin Rabelo of
Silva, of March 14, 2005, and of Counselor Reporter's last
Opinion, Civil engineer Luiz Sérgio Campos Lisboa,
of April 14, 2005, object of the Decision of nr. 20, on the
Process 5445/2004, of the Ordinary Plenary nr. 977 of CREA/PA,
approving the Opinion of the favorable Reporter to the denial
of the Resource with suspense effect presented by the professional
Geologist Ana Brígida Figueiredo Cardoso, regarding
the cancellation of her Annotation of Technical Responsibility
nr. 234.557 - which would be aiding the licensing juridical
support close to SECTAM - recommending that the orientations
are maintained emanated by the Technical Consultantship in
his Opinion of December 15, 2004. Still more, through the
Ruling of the Technical Consultantship of CREA/PA to the President
of the organ, after knowledge on the part of the Specialized
Camera of Agronomy about the Plenary Decision of this Council,
and of the Opinion of the Public prosecution service of the
State of Pará, the orientation was in the sense of
the determination to be accomplished and to consider null
Annotation nr. 234.557, by direction to the competent section
for the execution of that procedure, in other words, CREA
played its part and annulled, indeed, the irregular Annotation.
The technical responsible highlights that: we are not discussing
the merit of contractual brake or if the proposals in the
Plans and Programs of Environmental Control approved by SECTAM
are the most advantageous for the State of Pará. That
is attribution of the State, through the General office of
Environment. Although convict that the approved proposals
are not the best ones for the State; the one that we are discussing
is the violation of copyrights and the improper use of our
registration protected in law, while company and graduate
liberal professional in Agronomic Engineering and Environment.
As fiscal of the law, it falls to the State Public prosecution
service to investigate the irregularities and, if like this
understands, to enter with a Public" Civil Action,
Tembra still tells that, on June 01, 2003, CASAVERDE was hired
for the elaboration, under regime of global taskwork, of the
Plans and respective Programs of Environmental Control to
the Studies of Environmental Impacts, aiming at the obtaining
of the Licenses of Installation, regarding the plowing, improvement
and pipeline. For him the environmental project it should
work as a contract between the company and the state, and
this last one ends up not possessing the legal instrument
of collection of that that doesn't consist in the licensing
project, and, like this being, all and any action of the company,
out of those parameters, it can only be considered so only
"of free initiative", the company only does if it
wants. Unhappily, the company is right whenever it comes to
public to affirm that it is acting in voluntary way",
any that is the case, inside of this context.
The Plan of original Environmental Control was executed by
a technical team mounted under general coordination of CASAVERDE,
responsible for the elaboration of the plans and programs,
divided in 04 volumes. "Besides our participation as
Legal Technical Responsible of CASAVERDE close to CREA/PA,
because I am accredited through the Annotation of Technical
Responsibility nr. 166.263, of April 30, 2002, of acting of
Position or function of Technical Responsibility, the consultants'
team was constituted of professionals that act in the main
teaching institutions and research of the area, among them
the Museum Paraense Emílio Goeldi - MPEG, the Federal
University of Pará - UFPA, Rural Federal University
of the Amazonian - UFRA and the University of the Amazonian
- UNAMA. It also participated in the elaboration of PCA other
“paraense” company, specialized in engineering
geology, - the TERRA AMBIENTE - contracted by CASAVERDE to
act specifically in the elaboration of 05 (five) plans of
the area of engineering geology.
Tembra insists on the defense posture that got to assume in
relation to the Project Bauxita of Paragominas highlighting.
"Among the entities public or private, active in the
whole area, we were one of the few ones, if not the only ones
to leave in defense of the project openly, through the Newspaper
'O Liberal', which, in spite of the judicial demand that it
faced with the Company Vale do Rio Doce, it published in the
page 2 of the notebook 'PAINEL' of February 15, 2004, matter
of whole page, where we left in defense of the Vale do Rio
Doce, criticizing the Government of the State of Pará
in the measure in that this conditioned the liberation of
Project Bauxite's previous license to certain compensations,
in our understanding improper, that they were demanded in
change by the loss of the metallurgical pole of Maranhão.
In synthesis: While worried with the neighbor's projects,
the State of Pará forgot to establish legally, through
the environmental licensing, the best and fairer compensations
of the Project Bauxita of Paragominas in the Plateau Miltônia
3."
Lamentably, it already elapses more than one year from the
protocol of the several representations close to the main
organs involved with the environmental subject, in other words,
SECTAM/PA without the engineer and his company receiving sending
of plausible answers, and without the due providence being
taken. It is "sad the verification that, differently
that it happens in Pará, in any other place or civilized
country there would not have need of lawsuit entrance, position
that the own environmental organs would already have, in the
exercise of the occupation, adopted the reasonable" legal
measures.
The expressed recommendations in the Opinion of the State
Public prosecution service; requesting that it was officiated
to SECTAM in the sense of the non renewal of the License of
Installation 067/2004, as well as that License of Operation
was not granted to until the subject was solved, lamentably,
they still didn't have effect. Contradicting the legal recommendations,
in 28 of last close June the COMPANY VALE DO RIO DOCE turned
public, through the newspaper DIÁRIO DO PARÁ',
that it received on June 22, 2005, of SECTAM, the renewal
of the installation license under nr. 102/2005 with validity
from June 15, 2005 to July 14, 2006, for installation of the
infrastructure for plowing and improvement of bauxite ore,
in the municipal district of Paragominas, State of Pará.
On another side, the recorded authors' several applications,
mainly close to SECTAM, denouncing the irregularities and
requesting providence, much less they were assisted satisfactorily
or they were unknown simply, being the license of installation
of the plowing and improvement renewed solemnly, even after
the environmental agency it was informed, in skilled time,
on the cancellation of the Annotation of Technical Responsibility
of Geologist Ana Brígida Figueiredo Cardoso by CREA/PA,
as well as about the Opinion of the State Public prosecution
service. In fact, according to the documents, the renewal
of the environmental license of installation contradicted
the Opinion of the own juridical consultantship of SECTAM,
that suggested that this Organ, in the request of suspension
of the license, awaited that the subject was decided in extent
of Regional Council of Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy
- CREA/PA, so that she was able to, with a larger group of
elements, to decide concerning the granted license, besides,
applying to the case Art. 19 of the Resolution nr. 237/1997
of National Council of the Environment - CONAMA, which treats
of the possibility of the Environmental Organ in to suspend
or to cancel, sent licenses.
The Engineer considers of extreme importance to do a chronological
retrospective of the facts for best to evaluate the posture
and the direct behavior of government entities or indirectly
involved in the subject: "Previously, we will analyze
close to with larger depth the initial process of licensing
by the General office of Environment. Well then, it is verified
that the project for bauxite extraction, in the municipal
district of Paragominas should be implanted starting from
four (04) engineering works properly said and a mining activity.
In this last case, it would be able to it, also, consider
as a work of the engineering of mines.
Among the mentioned works, the construction and operation
of a highway and the implantation and operation of a transmission
line, in spite of the possibility of the concessions, they
are works typically of responsibility of the public power.
On the other hand, works clearly of private domain of Company
Vale do Rio Doce they are the plowing, the improvement and
the pipeline, that should be under the direct control of that
private company.
It is verified, still, in the process, that they were released
of separated EIA/RIMA the works of public character, in other
words, the highway and the transmission line. This understanding
flows of the fact that these two works, subject to the specific
evaluation of environmental impacts, they were inserted in
a single EIA/RIMA, that involves the opening of the mineral
plowing and the construction of the improvement plant.
Another EIA was demanded for the implantation of the pipeline.
"In our understanding they don't exist plausible elements
that they allow to evaluate or that they justify the reasons
of the dismissal of EIA/RIMA together for the public works,
or the inclusion of the same ones with the private works of
the Company Vale do Rio Doce". There would be already
there some subjects of a quite recent past, related to the
liberation of the previous licensing of the enterprise, that
they would need explanations; who would say of the most recent
irregularities of the license of installation of the works
that are in franc development, as if nothing irregular it
had happened, while the possible future environmental damages
to the treasury would be more and more irreversible, and no
legal providence is taken by the Public Power. We reminded
that this theme was object of wide report again published
in 'THE LIBERAL', of February 15, 2004, NOTEBOOK PAINEL -
POLÍTICA/ECONOMIA, of journalist's Frank Siqueira authorship,
where we were interviewed, and from that date we already alerted
for the fact that Pará suffered, and it can still come
to suffer, the threat of losing the prerogative of licensing
projects in the mining area, infrastructure and electric power.
We also already alerted on the retreat risks with the change,
and that the "benefits" seem "voluntary attitude"
because the State, as everything indicates, doesn't know how
to take advantage of the legal devices linking the expedition
or renewal of the environmental licenses to their legitimate
interests, so that the environmental study of the project
of bauxite exploration was done exactly - and only - as the
company wanted."
Before the facts above, we remain to lament that the legitimacy
of the licensing of the referred project is totally committed,
and, inside of that reasoning, the works should, at least,
be paralyzed. With the word the authorities of the State of
Pará!