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It would prove that mankind will always be just animal capable of “eating” the entire planet just for greed! France is destroying Amazon, so what it really want? FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE WHO DESTROY THE AMAZONGreenpeace discovers Amazon Reef extends to French Guiana watersFrench Oil and gas company Total proposed a major offshore drilling project without performing adequate due diligence with regard to possible environmental and human rights impacts.Cayenne, French Guiana – A team of scientists onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have captured for the first time images of reef structures in two different areas off the coast of French Guiana, at 95 to 120 metres deep and less than 150 kilometres from the city of Cayenne.The team of scientists involved in the research are confident to say that these reef structures are part of the Amazon Reef. This unique biome could be threatened by a spill in case French company Total starts drilling for oil in Brazilian waters.“We found reef structures in both areas studied. We were able to take pictures of a few corals and fish species. Future analysis will tell us more about the presence of the Amazon River plume, sediments and microorganisms present in the water of French Guiana,” said Gizele Duarte Garcia, professor at Rio de Janeiro Federal University.“This is breaking news. With the strong currents present in the region, an oil spill from Total’s project in Brazil could reach and damage the reef found in French waters. If the French government truly intends to be an international leader of environmental protection, it must take on the principle of precaution and protect French waters from possible threats to an ecosystem that has barely been studied,” said François Chartier, a campaigner at Greenpeace France.“We are seeing now that there’s still a lot to discover, not only in Brazil but also in French Guiana where the reef was also unexpected. This revelation makes it even more important to protect this biome against oil exploration. Brazil and France should join their forces to protect this unique ecosystem,” said Helena Spiritus, campaigner at Greenpeace Brazil.NGO links European and US companies to deforestation in the AmazonReport lists companies that buy products, such as meat and wood, from suppliers fined for deforestation in Brazil, amid fears of environmental setback in the Bolsonaro government.We are living through the first stages of an apocalypse, "this month an alliance of indigenous peoples declared to the French daily Le Monde. The origin of this concern lies in the accelerated dismantling of indigenous land tenure rights in the Amazon, a theme that dominates the political- in Brazil since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power.But, when writing in a newspaper that is published in Europe, the 13 authors - representing native peoples from various countries, including Brazil and New Zealand - aimed at an important audience that was not always taken into account. France, like other western countries, is the headquarters of companies whose production chain is tainted by illegal deforestation in the Amazon.In the past two years, the Brazilian company Benevides Madeiras has exported, respectively, 266 and 125 tons of wood to the French companies Guillemette & Cie and Groupe Rougier, according to a report published on Thursday (25/04) by the NGO Amazon Watch. And this despite the fact that the owner, Arnaldo Betzel, was fined R $ 2.2 million for illegal deforestation.The report also states that companies in Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark also received shipments of wood from Benevides Madeiras. A German beverage company, Acai GmbH, imported 9 tons of fruit pulp in 2018 from another Betzel company, Argus, adds the Amazon Watch survey.These companies are part of a group of 27 European and North American companies whose production chain has been linked to illegal deforestation by Amazon Watch, basically through the import of products such as beef, leather, soybeans and wood.The report raises questions about the responsibility of wealthy nations - and their companies - in deforesting the Brazilian Amazon. "We cultivate the land to feed our people and not to feed animals on the other side of the world," wrote representatives of the Alliance of Guardians of Mother Nature at Le Monde.The destruction of the Amazon for the production of meat, grains and wood has caused loss of biodiversity and high emissions of greenhouse gases. Experts consider that deforestation in the Amazon is one of the main obstacles to reaching global climate goals.Resources will soon be exhausted. Representatives from the mining sector, on the other hand, must start from the inexhaustibility of resources. This is the basis of their business model.The presented articles show that the question of the depletion of resources and their assessment in the LCA is by no means conclusively answered. There are many opinions and different approaches. Above all, however, it is an interdisciplinary question that has a lot to do with methods and experiences from environmental sciences, but most significantly with geology, resource economics, and mining. The positions on the depletion question depend very much on different specialists’ knowledge, but also on the normative positions of the various disciplines. It is therefore quite understandable that representatives from the environmental sciences assume that resources will soon be exhausted. Representatives from the mining sector, on the other hand, must start from the inexhaustibility of resources. This is the basis of their business model.Nevertheless, recommendations for politics and for the economy are necessary, such as which criteria are used to assess recycling strategies or a circular economy. If the depletion of resources is an independent and urgent issue, a circular economy would have absolute priority. In this case, this might have to be weighed against other objectives, e.g., climate protection. Conflicting goals could arise here since the achievement of the 1.5° goal requires an enormous expansion and the restructuring of energy supply structures worldwide. This would require a considerable use of resources that could only be covered by additional primary resources. If, however, the problem of resource depletion is postponed or perceived only as an exergy or entropy problem, then the energy balance and the environmental impacts of resource supply come to the fore, both from mining and from recycling. These can be dealt with very well in today’s LCA framework.This is why the discussion on this topic is more important than ever. However, this time it must lead to a result and must not get stuck in different schools of thought as it did 40 years ago. Above all, the exchanges between the various scientific disciplines and applications in economy are important. Therefore, the meeting in London, which resulted in most of the articles presented in this paper, was an important event that urgently needs to be repeated on an interdisciplinary and open platform.Rich and developed countries who exploit nature for various economic activities should take responsibility and pay more for the damages cause to environment.The rich nations have accumulated enormous wealth because of increase in industrial development to become major suppliers of all type of products. The rise in industries has resulted in reduced forest cover, river pollution due to discharge of waste chemicals in river waters and rise in air pollution due high amount of carbon emissions. In short unbridled industrial activity has played havoc with the entire ecological system effecting humans, animals, air, water , soil and plant life.The rich nations like USA, Britain, France, Germany, and Canada are selling goods to major world markets and earning billions of dollars at the cost of Mother Nature. In two decades of climate-change negotiations, a deep divide has remained between wealthy nations and developing ones, each side insisting the other move first to lower carbon emissions and curb the effects of global warming.Industrialized, rich nations have flourished in part because they were able to burn fossil fuel indiscriminately for decades, and the impact of those emissions is only now being recognized as climate changes. As poor countries view it, rich nations got rich at their expense. As the earth continues to get warm, it will heighten water scarcity, intensify flooding and droughts and worsen some infectious diseases — all of which will first hit developing countries that have not yet had the chance to burn fossil fuels in large quantities.There should be no doubts that that the U.S. bears more blame than any other nation, having emitted about one-quarter of all the CO2 that has ever resulted from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Ethics and morality says that those who cause the problem must take responsibility for compensating for the environmental damages. Poor nations around the world have struggled with natural disasters and disease for years, ultimately, rich or poor, global warming is a problem we truly face together and hence the rich neighbors should take the lead in rectifying and correcting their mistakes.Amazonia Attrocities made by the Norwegian Royal Family!The Norwegian Royal Family Member, Erling Sven Lorentzen, married with princess Ragnhild, sister of king Harald V of Norway, attacked and robbed the lands of the Amazonian Indians Tupinikim and Guarani, his company planted more than 1 million hectars of eucaliptus and left the natives without land and later without any water.In 2009 he sold his part and returned to Norway extremelly rich, but the lands kept under control of the Norwegian company Aracruz Celulose, supported by the Fundo Amazonia, which Norway want to use as excuse to make WAR to BRAZIL!.Fibria Celulose S.A. is a company that resulted from the merger, financed in 2009 with public funds from the BNDES (1) , of the firms Votorantim Celulose e Papel and Aracruz Celulose S.A. At present, Fibria owns over 1 million hectares of land and has become the top exporter of cellulose from eucalyptus worldwide.The Norwegian company Aracruz Celulose, is known for the social, economic, environmental and cultural violations it carried out throughout a period of four decades, with the approval of State authorities, all of which affected the rural, indigenous and Quilombolas communities. It was Aracruz Celulose (currently renamed Fibria) who was responsible for the demolition of houses, and even worship places, carried out with tractors in 2006 in two indigenous settlements of the indigenous Tupinikim and Guaraní. That same year, this company conceived and carried out a racist and discriminative campaign against the indigenous population, with consequences to be suffered by those communities for years to come. This company was also responsible, in 2009, for a persecution – organized in combination with a huge police deployment – and further attack on the Quilombola community of São Domingos, resulting in the arrest of 40 Quilombola community members who were accused of “stealing wood” from their own territory. The company also has a history of negligence towards former employees, which adds to other appalling behaviors by Fibria in the present, all of which have been well documented by the statements of local witnesses, as well as in books, videos, academic work and presentations, and photographic material covering a variety of discursive, academic, multi-disciplinary, technical, journalistic and artistic genres (4) . IMAFLORA must not underestimate the significance of such amount of written and empirical material evidencing the company’s bad reputation in relation to the local, regional and international societies. This is another dreadful example of how to obtain a mark identified as “green and sustainable”.Despite the numerous studies identifying its territories made public in the past 7 or 8 years, Fibria continues to infringe the territorial rights of the Quilombola communities located in the north of Espíritu Santo. The State (5)(and, unofficially, the company itself!) has already admitted the occupation, by Fibria, of state-owned lands (6) . Nonetheless, the legal actions by the company are still the main obstacle standing in the way of a proper and agile process towards the land ownership legalization procedures for Quilombola territories. The company has gone as far as supporting a racist campaign through its own allies, rural land-owners who have constituted a group called “Movimento Paz no Campo” (MPC – Rural Peace Movement), a sort of regional UDR (7) , to oppose the demarcation of Quilombola territories. In the meantime, rivers and streams vanished and submerged amidst eucalyptus plantations drive communities towards a serious water crisis that directly affects food safety, as admitted by the Council for Food Safety, and the Committee on Human Rights relative to Adequate Nutrition.Marina de Castro Schwab1 – “Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social” – National Bank for Economic and Social Development.2 – HARDELL, Lennart; ERIKSSON, Miikael. A case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and exposure to pesticides. Cancer, Lund, N.º 85, p. 1353-1360, 15 March 1999.http://www.espacoacademico.com.br/051/51andrioli.htm3 – Documento Técnico Sobre los Impactos de la Sulfluramida y del Sulfonato de Perfluorooctano (PFOS) sobre la Salud Humana y Ambiental (Technical Document on the Impact of Sulflu-ramid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) on Humans and the Environment) – Osvaldo Cruz Foundation.http://www2.camara.gov.br/atividade-legislativa/comissoes/comissoes-permanentes/capadr/audiencias-2009/rap140409zuleica.pdf4 – To the extent that history may be of significance to the FSC and to the IMAFLORA, abundant proof is available to hear and read in this regard, such as, for example, the study entitled “Estudo e Relatório de Impactos em Direitos Humanos de grandes projetos (EIDH/RIDH):” the case of large-scale eucalyptus monoculture in the northern region of the State of Espíritu Santo, published in 2010 by the Movimiento Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Human Rights Movement) and the Centro de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de Serra (Center for the Defense of Human Rights of Serra). Another recent publication is the book entitled “Aracruz Credo: 40 anos de violações y resistência no ES” (Aracruz Credo: 40 years of violations and resistance in ES), produced in 2011 by the networks Alert against the Green Desert and the Brazil Network about Multi-lateral Financial Institutions. On this matter, there is also Padre José Koopmans’ book “Além do Eucalipto: O papel do Extremo Sul”, published in 2005, and the bulletin “Dez Respostas a Dez Mentiras”, produced from a text by Ricardo Carrere (WRM-Uruguay) by the Fundação Padre José Koopmans Fund in 2010, all available in the website of CEPEDES, Eunápolis and FUNPAJ, in Teixeira de Freitas – Bahía. Also, there are two reports on the violation of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights in the publication “H2O para celulose, água para muitas línguas” by FASE and the Alert against the Green Desert Network, a report on the Quilombola Mission by the Committee on Human Rights relative to Adequate Nutrition related to the National Council for Food Safety. All this in addition to many other articles, Ph D. theses, and M.S. lectures produced at different academic centers, as well as post-graduate programmes available at different universities.5 – Through the Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Reforma Agraria (INCRA – National Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute) and the Instituto de Defensa Agropecuaria (IDAF – Agrarian Defense Institute).6 – Lands belonging to the State which cannot be owned by private enterprises.7 – An ultra-conservative organization made up of large landowners reportedly resorting to violence against movements opposing the agrarian reform in Brazil.8 – By the “Promotoría Regional Costa das Baleias”.9 – Several examples of impact are described in the publication “Violações socioambientais promovidas pela Veracel Celulose, propriedade da Stora Enso e Aracruz Celulose (atual Fibria)”, produced by CEPEDES in 2008.10 – These are people who plant eucalyptus on their own land for supplying the company pursuant to written agreements whereby they undertake the obligation of selling their trees to Veracel, in other words, it’s about Veracel outsourced production.11 – According to a study by the Environmental Secretary’s Office for the State of Bahía, 60% of the area inspected in 2009 did not include any Legal Reserves, and 15% even lacked surface for such purpose. Evidence of such irregularities is the fact that one of the locations where the certification process will take place, Itabela, cancelled all environmental licenses in 2011 through a Municipal Decree-Law. There are also legal procedures against Veracel Celulose by those receiving funds, with decisions by 1st and 2nd grade courts contrary to the company.TOP MINING COMPANIES IN BRAZIL September 2014.Minas-Rio iron ore mine – $56.43bnMinas-Rio, one of the ten biggest iron ore mines in the world, located in the state of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil, is 100% owned by the UK-based mining multinational Anglo American through its subsidiary Iron Ore Brazil. Anglo received operating permit for the Minas-Rio iron ore mine and processing plant from Brazil’s federal environment protection agency Ibama in September 2014.The Minas-Rio open-pit mine was estimated to hold 1.38 billion tonnes of probable iron ore reserves grading 38.8% Fe as of December 2013. The amount of saleable products contained in the mine was estimated to be 686 million tonnes (Mt) grading 67.5% Fe. Scheduled for commissioning by the end of 2014, Minas-Rio is anticipated to produce up to 29.8Mt per annum (mtpa) of iron ore during its initial mine life of 28 years.Anglo American bought the iron ore project from Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista for $5.5bn in 2007-2008. Post-acquisition, the UK miner is reported to have invested $8.8bn in the integrated mining project which involved the development of an open-pit mine, a beneficiation plant, a 525km-long slurry pipeline, and the Port of Açu, located in Rio de Janeiro, in which Anglo has 49% stake.Santa Rita nickel mine – $13.14bnWholly owned by Australia-based Mirabela Nickel, the Santa Rita nickel sulphide mine located 260km southwest of Salvador in the Brazilian state Bahia was estimated to hold 140.2Mt of proven and probable ore reserves, (at an average grade of 0.52% Ni) containing over 729,000t of nickel, as of December 2013.The Santa Rita Nickel deposit was discovered by Mirabela in 2004 and the open-pit mine was brought into commercial production in 2010. A total of 19.1Mt of ore (at an average nickel grade of 0.48%) was mined from the deposit by the end of 2013. The extracted ore is processed at a nickel sulphide concentration plant located near the mine site.Nickel concentrate produced from the Santa Rita operation is delivered to Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta (Norilsk) and Votorantim Metais Niquel (Votorantim) under separate off-take agreements. The remaining mining life at Santa Rita is estimated to be 20 years.Chapadão (Ouvidor) phosphate mine – $13.1bnAnglo American’s 100%-owned Chapadão phosphate mine near Ouvidor in the Goias state of Brazil was estimated to contain 118.1Mt of proven and probable ore reserves grading 12.8% phosphate as of December 2013. The Chapadão open-pit mine is believed to contain 15% of Brazil’s known phosphate mineral resources and has a mine life of 20 years.Ouvidor phosphate mine produces approximately 5.8Mt of high-grade phosphate ore (on a dry basis) per year, which is treated at a nearby beneficiation facility that is capable of producing 1.4Mtpa of phosphate concentrate.The same concentrate is used at two Anglo American-operated chemical processing complexes: one at Catalão in the state of Goiás, and the other at Cubatão in the state of São Paulo, to produce a wide variety of products including fertilisers for the Brazilian Agricultural sector. The company’s fertiliser production in 2013 increased by 6% to 1.19Mt.The ten biggest foreign-owned mines in BrazilTop 10 mining companies in the world | Lists | Mining GlobalTOP 10 WORLD MINING COMPANIES10 - FRESNILLO - UKWith a 2017 market capitalisation of $14.54bn, Fresnillo is the largest primary silver producer in the world. The company is also the second-largest gold producer in Mexico. Based in Mexico with its headquarters in Mexico City, the precious metals mining company incorporated in the United Kingdom (UK). It operates three silver and gold mines in Mexico: one each located in the states of Zacatecas, Sonora and Durango.Home | Fresnillo plc9 . Anglo AmericanHeadquartered in London, UK and Johannesburg, South Africa, Anglo American produces about 40% of the world's platinum, making it the largest company to do so. With additional operations in North America, Africa, South America, Asia, Europe and Australasia, Anglo American is also a major producer of precious materials such as nickel, iron ore, diamonds, coal and copper. Its market capitalisation was $17.33bn in 2017.http://www.angloamerican.com/#maincontentAnglo American8 - Newmont Mining - USANewmont Mining, a mining company based in Colorado, United States, is the second-largest producer of gold in the world. With $17.51bn in market capitalisation as of 2017, Newmont Mining has active gold mines in Australia, Peru, New Zealand, Indonesia, Ghana and the United States. The company also mines copper and silver and maintains numerous joint venture relationships with other entities around the world.Newmont Corporation - Home7 . Barrick Gold . CANADABarrick Gold boasted $18.28 billion in 2017 in market capitalization. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company maintains mining operations across the globe including those in Canada as well as Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Chile, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Australia and the Dominican Republic. It is the world's largest gold mining company with over 75% of its production of the precious metal coming from the Americas.Barrick Gold Corporation - Home6 – COAL INDIAWith a market capitalisation of $24.62bn as of 2017, Coal India is a state-controlled enterprise headquartered in West Bengal, India. The company is the world's largest producer of coal and contributes about 82% of the country's total coal production. It operates 81 mining areas that span eight states of the country. These are comprised of a combination of open cast, underground and mixed mines.Coal India Limited5 – VALE – ANGLO .NORWEGIAN AMERICAN BRAZILIANHeadquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vale is the world's largest producer of both nickel and iron ore. It also produces kaolin, copper, potash, cobalt, ferroalloys and bauxite. The company boasted a market capitalisation of $40.17bn in 2017 and is one of the country's largest logistics operators. In addition to its mining operations, Vale also operates an expansive network of logistics solutions comprised of ports, railroads and ships to better transport its products.About Vale4 - Glencore Xstrata - SwissGlencore Xstrata is headquartered in Switzerland and was ranked as the tenth largest company in the world according to the Fortune Global 500 list. Not only is Glencore Xstrata the country's largest company, it's also the world's largest commodities trading company. It maintains a 60% share of the world's internationally tradeable zinc and 50% of its copper. The company also produces ferroalloys and nickel. Glencore Xstrata posted a market capitalisation of $51.37bn as of 2017.Homepage3 - China Shenhua Energy – ChinaChina Shenhua Energy is both the largest state-owned mining company in Mainland China and the world's largest coal mining enterprise. In addition to producing and selling coal and electric power, China Shenhua Energy also operates coal mines and an integrated seaport and railway network that it uses to transport coal. Operating primarily through its subsidiaries, China Shenhua Energy maintains both underground and open cut mines that enable it to sell millions of tonnes of coal each year. In 2017, the company posted a market capitalisation of $62.4bn.HomePage2 – RIO TINTO – UK AUSTRALIA CANADARio Tinto, as one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world, posted a market capitalisation of $73.79bn in 2017. A multinational firm, Rio Tinto has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia and London. Though it supports operations on six continents, the bulk of its activities are centred in Canada and Australia. Rio Tinto devotes the major portion of its operations in the extraction of minerals such as iron ore, uranium, copper, aluminium, diamonds and coal. The company also expends significant resources to refining iron ore and bauxite.Home1 – BHP – AUSTRALIAHeadquartered in Melbourne, Australia, BHP is the largest mining company in the world based on its market capitalisation of $87.86bn in 2017. In addition, the company is the third-largest in Australia with more than $38bn in revenue during that same year. In addition to potash, coal, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium, BHP also sells and markets natural gas and petroleum. It has mines in the United States, Australia, Canada, Peru, Mexico, Columbia and Chile.A leading global resources company | BHP