At the end of the end of the first quarter of 2025, infrastructure and energy development projects in Pará have obstacles to their embodiment. the iron, TOCANTINS waterway And a project Equatorial margin They face a mixture of unfavorable technical opinions, environmental questions, and judicial status. While the authorities defend institutions as necessary, societies warn of risks to the environment and the lives of the traditional population.
Fergrão: Between logistical promise and science alerts
About a thousand kilometers planned, Fergrão Miritituba (PA) will link to Sinop (MT)It works as Exclusive corridor for pimples. However, in March of this year, a new artistic opinion brought back the alerts about the social and environmental effects of the project conducted by the Ministry of Transport.
The report, prepared by scholars from Infrastructure and Social -Environmental Justice Group (GT Infra)It indicates that the railways It may stimulate the removal of forests for more than 2 thousand square kilometersIn addition to Directly affects the Amazon rivers, public forests, original lands and memorization units. The lack of an evaluation of the cumulative effects, the ignorance of climate risks, and the failure of land prevention are some of the main points that have been criticized.
In addition, intense traffic in the river -related river roads can lead to a waiver of water quality and fishing – an essential activity of Revistide societies. Tapajós, which is considered one of the most senses in the Amazon, at the Center for Fears.
The liberal group is awaiting a note from the Ministry of Transport, responsible for the project.
TOCANTINS: Licenses in Disputes and suspended consultations
Another project stop is the TOCANTINS, which This depends on the removal of Pedral Do Lourenço – a rock formation that prevents the full movement between Maraba and Tukuroy during the drought period. The work, which is vital to transporting waterways in the region, faces judicial and environmental resistance.
Although DNit (National Transport Infrastructure) obtained a former IBama license in 2022, the Federal Public Prosecutor Office Doubts the legitimacy of the process. In February 2025, the court rejected a judicial order, requesting the cancellation of the license. However, the decision does not mean immediate progress: Funai and Sudra have been banned from approval of any new license until studies of influence on the lands of the indigenous population and the societies of Quilombola are completed.
In a new judicial demonstration at the end of March, MPF has strengthened requests to cancel the license, claiming Technical negligence E The errors in free, advance and enlightened consultation of the population who are likely to be affected.
The liberal group is awaiting a memorandum of the infrastructure of the National Transport Ministry (DNIT), which is responsible for the project.
Equilateral margin: Energy limits under control
Indeed on the coast, Petrobras face resistance to the exploration of oil in the tropical margin that is called, a A wide coastal path from Rio Grande de Norte to Amaba, including part of the Para coast. The focus is on the 59th block, which is located 175 km from the Amapá coast and 540 km from Foz Do Amazonas.
In May 2023, IBAMA has already denied the environmental license to dig the exploratory well. In February 2025, technicians confirmed from the agency to confirm the negative recommendation, noting Gaps in surrounding current studiesand Failure to communicate with local communities – Especially the original – and There is no effective plane to contain oil leakage.
Even without permission to start exploration, Petrobras insists on the feasibility of the project. The company owned by the state is an investment of $ 3 billion and drilling 15 wells in the region, in addition to establishing the largest emergency response structure that is absolutely planned in a national project.
Meanwhile, IBAMA has no date for a final decision, and the National Petroleum Agency has already identified a new bloc an auction in the region – which illuminates the debate about the direction of energy and environmental protection in Brazil.
In a statement of the report, the Pará Industries (FIEPA) argues that infrastructure investments are prior requirements to develop any region and emphasize the enormous productive capabilities and the generation of wealth, which, however, is limited with a series of “logistical bottle bags”.
“We are talking about contracts with contracts of discussion. Vergro, for example, is a structural solution for the flow of the Middle West and the Western Region of Para, and connecting Sinop to Meritoba, and in the future, to Santarim.
The same logic applies to the TOCANTINS. Pedral Do Lourenço is a false environmental barrier known for more than 30 years. A certified project has already been approved, quotes have been launched, and nothing has come – and nothing had advanced. It is an obstacle, if crossed, would make the waterway position in an effective and sustainable option for Pará and Brazil. Saying that the license must be issued by IBAMA, not by Semas, because the river is born outside the state, is a fragile justification. If we go this way, no national project will come out of paper. “
The liberal group is awaiting Petrobras and Ebama notes on the project.
