{"id":47710,"date":"2022-12-02T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=47710"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:19:57","slug":"brazil-set-to-scrap-gas-pipelines-and-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/12\/02\/brazil-set-to-scrap-gas-pipelines-and-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s incoming government set to scrap gas pipelines and power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incoming Brazilian government is considering cancelling a network of gas power plants and pipelines planned by the current president Jair Bolsonaro, according to the likely new environment minister Marina Silva.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, the Brazilian congress proposed building 8GW of gas power plants in Brazil’s north-east and a network of pipelines to supply them.<\/p>\n

In a legislative trick known as “jabuti” or “tortoise”, the congress successfully made this a condition of them supporting Bolsonaro’s privatisation of Brazilian utility Electrobras.<\/p>\n

The project was criticised for environmental and economic reasons. Campaigners said<\/a> that building the pipelines would cost taxpayers R$100bn ($20bn) and would only benefit a businessman called Carlos Suarez whose company would carry out the project.<\/p>\n

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A revers\u00e3o da contrata\u00e7\u00e3o de usinas termel\u00e9tricas e a constru\u00e7\u00e3o de gasodutos que v\u00e3o ser benef\u00edcio direto para um empres\u00e1rio monopolista de distribui\u00e7\u00e3o de g\u00e1s em algumas regi\u00f5es do pa\u00eds \u00e9 uma ideia que est\u00e1 sendo pensada na equipe de transi\u00e7\u00e3o de governo. pic.twitter.com\/nYaUFuluvn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Marina Silva (@MarinaSilva) November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n