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Rousseff announces veto of several Forest Code controversial amendments
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Friday that she is vetoing some of the controversial amendments to the country’s Forest Code that would have substantially weakened the country’s forest protection and climate mitigation actions. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesStill win for the farmers who played by rule. Good job Dilma. Foreign NGO are crying.. kkkkkkkk:D
May 26th, 2012 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Sullivan
May 26th, 2012 - 05:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really can't read if you think that is a victory for the farmers.
Good job, Dilma. People's greed is killing our planet
May 26th, 2012 - 07:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Before the Rio/24 UN Development Conference ,the radical wording of this agenda already put the Government in an uncomfortable position.
May 26th, 2012 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0At the end ,Teixeira/Salvatti team has made done what they want.
skare it is. sullivan is right. there will be no amensty for the illegal loggers, but that doesn't matter for the big farmers who played by the rules. They have more choices with their land like keep the trees for more tax incentatives or continue to grow. that's what's all about. The NGO's can't stand that, they want total veto.
May 26th, 2012 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh what a surprise! Fido Dido agreeing with one of his other online identities. What a cretin.
May 26th, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0( 5 )
May 26th, 2012 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You did mean ?-- NGO working group on UN-NGO relations founded in 2009 which has roles between open partnership in between UN and NGOs.
^%% reduction from a ridiculously high rate of deforestation is STILL a ridiculously high rate of deforestation.
May 26th, 2012 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The main problem is the RECENT resurgence in logging and forest clearances.
Many, many rich people need long spells in COMMON prisons for their flagrant deforestation practices and the string of murders that accompany these practices.
Join AVAARZ and become part of a worldwide pressure-group that continues to guide the sensible thinking of the Presidenta.
(8) GeoffWard
May 26th, 2012 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Moral is good...
Double moral seems to be twice as good.......
I remember you criticizing the Chileans that vehemently oppose the destruction of the most pristine sites of Patagonia with the construction of unnecessary dams and high tension lines.... so the middle class in Santiago can run their air conditioning machines………….
Hi, Think.
May 27th, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I am picky and choosy wrt energy issues.
Carbon sinks are important to me - especially the forests and the seas.
Renewable energy provided by gravity acting on water to produce electricity also presses my buttons.
The costs attached to this constant source of energy is my trade-off - aesthetics of powerlines, wind-farms, etc., permanent loss of land to reservoirs (eg Xingo), and people relocations.
I inform myself and then weigh off the balance of costs and benefits.
For instance, I have long preached for the English/Welsh Severn estuary barrage scheme (etc) for turbine electrical energy from twice-daily tidal movements. I know this will change the internationally famous wildfowl reserve at Slimbridge.
I have been accused of NIMBYism wrt the proposed windfarm near my English home. It might appear so, buy I was part of the conservation management team (HMTNC) that designated the area as of Scientific Interest and High Landscape Value some 40 years ago. The recent (poorly argued) profit interests of local farmers diversifying into energy provision do not weigh heavily against my original protections on the area.
(10) GeoffWard2
May 27th, 2012 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, you are not ”Picky and Choosy” wrt energy issues…….
If you were ”Picky and Choosy”, you would know that nowhere in Europe or the USA are they allowing those monstrous High Tension lines and towers anymore……………
All new projects are subterraneous, and the old lines are also being dig down…..
If you were ”Picky and Choosy”, you would know that they are much better alternatives for hydroelectric energy production than damming a river………….
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2009/gb2009127_163138.htm
The only ”picky and choosyness” I can spot in your approach for Chile is the picking and choosing of the oldest, most destructive and profit maximizing technology available…..
You know where to stick it...................
Get him, Think!
May 27th, 2012 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Oh what a surprise! Fido Dido agreeing with one of his other online identities. What a cretin.”
May 27th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uhuh, just as your mother who's suprised with your online trolling here. Seriously, go hug more trees what they enjoy doing there in Norway.
Hi Forgetit!
May 27th, 2012 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long time no talk.
Any thoughts on Dilma's action. For it? Against it?
What about you, skare? What other account do you secretly use on this website? My guess would be sticky.
May 27th, 2012 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not buying this recent wave of pro-Brit non-British users. Seems like the Brits want to beef up their perceived international support by...setting up fake accounts to spout their talking points. One of the problems, however, is that their attempts are a bit too forced. They always create accounts that instantly give away their supposed national origin, when most other users never do that.
Geoff, I haven't kept up with the news -- I'm actually avoiding them. So many stuff that I dislike, specially in the economics department -- I'd rather save myself the trouble of reading about them. As to the piece's subject, I'm frankly indifferent to it. I'm certainly no treehugger, and like Sullivan, I dislike how foreign NGOs, based in countries with barely a trace of their original eco-systems, feel entitled to order us around concerning our natural resources. But regarding the Code it's really “tanto faz” for me.
May 27th, 2012 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0skåre, I am Brasilian and not Dutch like Fido dido, but looks like he knows more than you about my country. He called you troll, I post picture for you again. Norway is famous for trolls: http://www.skjoldlodge.com/trolls.html
May 28th, 2012 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“nowhere in Europe or the USA are they allowing those monstrous High Tension lines and towers anymore……………
May 28th, 2012 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0All new projects are subterraneous, and the old lines are also being dig down…..”
I'm afraid this isn't quite true. I can't speak to Europe, but in North America above ground transmission lines are still used when power has to be conveyed long distances from a generating station to an urban substation. Most hydroelectric stations are located in rugged, rocky areas where digging in power lines is not possible. You are correct in saying that new residential power lines and some existing ones are being located below ground.
True, Dave.
May 28th, 2012 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0I even found somewhere in Brasil - a couple of roads - where urban/residential powerlines are being buried along the road rather than blighting the whole urban landscape with a total tangle of poles, wires and 'cats'/gatos.
This is the way developed countries go, but it it is so very, very slow.
One big advantage is that burying the urban utilities in concrete conduits allows for street pavements to be rebuilt with continuity, avoiding the crippling walks along pavements where every house/shop frontage has a different injury-inducing 'pavement'.
Viva Dilma =)
May 31st, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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