Tag: Ceará

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 13:38 UTC

  Green hydrogen hub planned in northeast Brazil

  

  A US$ 5.4bn green hydrogen hub has been planned in Ceará, northeast Brazil, and most probably the first-of-its-kind in Latin America. Set to be located at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex (CIPP), 60km from Fortaleza, the hub will be built by Australia’s Enegix Energy.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Wind power in Brazil represents 9% of the energy matrix

  

  Wind energy is advancing in Brazil and now represents 9% of the energy matrix the state of Ceará, northeast, ended 2018 with 2,050.5 MW of installed wind power capacity, in 80 wind farms.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Heavy rains with flash floods in northeast Brazil and in Paraguay

  

  Civil defense officials have reported that heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least three people and displaced 3,600, while apparently unrelated flooding far to the south in Paraguay has forced some 20,000 people from their homes.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  Brazilian government trying to recover control over its overloaded prison system

  

  Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops have been sent to the city of Fortaleza and the rest of Ceara state to reinforce overwhelmed local cops, who face a dramatic rash of attacks on government buildings, buses, police stations, banks and bridges by well-armed gang members.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Organized crime challenges Bolsonaro despite deployment of federal forces

  

  The attacks and fire-bombings sweeping Brazil's northeastern state of Ceara continued unabated Sunday despite the deployment of at least 300 members the elite, military-style National Police Force to help bring an end to the violence.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Troops sent to contain violence in northeast Brazil: criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro?

  

  Brazil's government ordered troops to the northeast of the country on Friday to contain violence by criminal groups in the first test of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's hard-line law-and-order platform.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Twelve people, including six hostages killed in bank robbery shootout in Brazil

  

  Twelve people including 6 hostages were killed on Friday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at 2 banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.