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20/07/2012
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Since Monday, are suspended all licenses issued by the Environmental Sanitation Technology Company (Cetesb) and the State Government, in 20 cities of Piracicaba (SP), which allowed the plantations of sugar cane to be burnt to enable manual harvesting.
According to the civil lawsuit the Federal Public Ministry, the practice causes irreparable damage to health, fauna, flora and water resources, and encumber the Union Scholars also point to another consequence of global warming, since it is released, and carbon dioxide carbon pollutants - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and soot - carcinogenic compounds, ozone and other organic products.
According to information from the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, the decision that goes to trial on the merits of the case, Judge Daniela Paulovich de Lima, of 2. Federal Court determined that the emissions are canceled new permits. And it requires only that the release Cetesb burned after submission of the Environmental Impact Study / Report on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA / RIMA), a survey of damage to the environment and life, with compensatory measures.
The judge noted that the fire "not only shows disrespect for the environment, but also the desire to lower the cost of production." The Sugarcane Industry Union of São Paulo (Unica) and Cetesb reported that were not notified and not comment on the matter.
Fauna - Impacts to wildlife are very large. Biologists working in the Ecological Park of Sao Carlos (SP) said they often rescued from fires - mostly unsuccessfully - animals such as wild cats, pumas, maned wolves, deer, anteaters, armadillos, snakes and many other. These individuals rarely survive. They also reported that an enormous amount of animals that die by fire, by heat or by asphyxiation caused by smoke. Many animals do not find a more native forests that were destroyed for implantation of sugarcane plantations, is solely under his own plantation, which serves for survival and procreation of the species.
Moreover, there is a strikingly higher number of other members of fauna such as insects, small rodents and birds, which are completely incinerated and even leave traces remarkable.
"The fire also kills many trampled during the escape and puppies that are helpless," said the prosecutor Fausto Kosaka, plaintiff. Thus, the Federal Court demanded that the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) to begin inspecting the damage caused by fires to wildlife.
In an interview with the vehicle, the prosecutor stated that "it is not against progress and economic development." "What can not be tolerated at the present stage of our civilization is that it be through dantesque practices that cause the impairment of health of the population, damage to the water potential, the brutal extermination of many animal and plant specimens and exploitation labor regime similar to slavery, for the economic benefit of some. ".
Currently, state law authorizes the burning if the request is not made in Cetesb analyzed in 15 days. In its decision, the judge ruled that the Environmental Police and Fire Department to monitor the violation of the law. It was stipulated daily penalty of r$ 50,000, if the determination is violated.
Source: Environment Brazil
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