As contradições do EIA-RIMA ante os impactos ambientais da indústria de alumínio na Amazônia: o caso Hydro Alunorte em Barcarena-PA

Abstract

The development has long been presented as an essential process for life in society. In Brazil, to accelerate this process, many projects for the implantation of large industrial projects were created, with emphasis on mining and metallurgical projects aimed at the Amazon region. It turns out that the installation and operation of these large projects cause environmental impacts that mainly affect marginalized local communities. To prevent and mitigate such environmental damage, there are legal and administrative instruments created by law, such as the EIA-RIMA. In this context, there is the situation of the Hydro Alunorte industrial complex in Barcarena City in the State of Pará. Based on documentary and bibliographic research, the study aims to demonstrate the contradictions of the EIA / RIMA as a proposed instrument to deal properly with the impacts of these large enterprises industrial operation. From the final discussions, it is possible to verify the insufficiency of the instrument and its historical use as a document that validates environmental inequalities and injustices. At the end, it presents a product for those most fragile by the local industrial dynamics.