Friday, January 21, 2011

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Piquiá: how to be socially irresponsible companies!

seems paradoxical, but perhaps the only way out for families of low Piquiá, Açailândia, Maranhão: organize a collection to raise money and buy the land on which to build houses on a possible transfer of families affected by severe pollution produced by local mills. steel is that the powerful State, organized and linked to SIFEMA, - the union of Maranhão steel whose chairman is the current state secretary of Agriculture, Claudio Azevedo Donis - are slow. Do not wave at the moment to pay £ 220,000 - two hundred and twenty thousand reais to buy the land chosen by consensus for the families of Piquiá low. That would signal a basic minimum, that companies could offer the whole society and the negotiators. Besides being part of an informal agreement - for now - between a group of institutions under the coordination of District Attorney to try to solve a time of socio-environmental problem has been dragging on for decades.

the face of increasing pollution and damage to public health, and to see that companies are unlikely to change the current location, the solution proposed by the group was inter-sectoral transfer of about 300 families of low Piquiá . The possible transfer that is being negotiated by leaps and bounds, with omissions and obvious lack of interest by some local actors, can not mean 'carte blanche' to continue to pollute. Unlike. Contribute to soften, as an emergency, an impact that has produced losses of any order is a requirement for steel moral and legal. And both will have to adopt effective mechanisms to reduce emissions of soot. Not to mention the actions of compensation that must appear. The companies are betting on legal and audit mechanism laxity of the State ...

The impasse, however, at this moment is the role played by the Ministry of Public Açailândia. Has been omitted in a scandalous way. Perhaps pressure from local forces. There are strong calls popular to assume that this definitely, with courage, their legal responsibility to convene, collect, mediate and initiate investigations to determine liability. Faced with such a lack of irresponsibility social and ... shame companies that only suck air, public health and human sweat is the least that the 'defender of collective rights' have to do!

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