Brazil Court Suspends Temer Decree That Opened Amazon Reserve to Mining
Published 30 August 2017 (7 hours 10 minutes ago)
The court in Brasilia "partially granted an injunction to immediately suspend any administrative act" aimed at abolishing the Renca reserve.
A federal court in Brazil has suspended a presidential decree that would have allowed mining companies to exploit the lush Renca reserve in the Amazon after national and international condemnations of the government move.
In a decree last week, unelected president Michel Temer abolished the the National Reserve of Copper and Associates that has been created in 1984, opening swaths of untouched forest to mining — roughly 4.6 million hectares of area in northern Brazil — to commercial activity, justifying the effort by saying that it would boost Brazil's economy.
The court in Brasilia "partially granted an injunction to immediately suspend any administrative act" aimed at abolishing the Renca reserve, it said in a statement, adding that Temer's original decree can no longer be implemented.
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