Mega oil and gas auction in Brazil may threaten Indigenous lands

Mongabay
Dec 15, 2023, 2:42 pm236 pts
On Wednesday, Brazil’s Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) put 602 new oil blocks up for auction, at least 21 of which are in the Amazon River Basin. This is the fourth bidding cycle — a system adopted in 2019 and carried out every year to grant corporations the ability to carry out oil and gas operations…

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