Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has seized on global fertilizer shortages caused by the Ukraine war to push for a law that would allow mining on indigenous reservations.
The government's chief whip in the lower house of Congress gathered enough signatures on Tuesday to fast-track the bill known as PL 191/2020, which means that it could be put to a full vote without committee hearings, the speaker's office said.
"This crisis between Ukraine and Russia is a good opportunity for us. We have a bill in Congress that will allow us to exploit those indigenous lands," he said on Monday in a radio interview. Even if the mineral reserves are not exactly under protected indigenous lands, there should be a buffer area to insulate adjacent tribal communities from the social and environmental impacts of mining, she said.
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