Oil spill off Brazil from 2019
The oil spill off Brazil from 2019 is large-scale oil spills off the Brazilian coast. As of August 2019, up to 2000 km of coastline in the Atlantic off northeast Brazil, and thus more than 200 beaches, according to the Ibama environmental institute, were affected. The cause is unknown.
578 coastal beaches in the states of the two Região Nordeste and Região Sudeste are affected : Alagoas , Bahia , Ceará , Maranhão , Paraíba , Pernambuco , Espírito Santo , Piauí Rio Grande do Norte and also in Sergipe .
The first reports of an oil spill appeared on September 2, 2019. The government has not yet declared a state of emergency. Environmental groups accuse the Brazilian government under the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of having largely ignored the oil spill so far and of having provided hardly any funds to combat it.
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras announced that they were blends of Venezuelan oils without assigning blame.
See also
Web links
- Destruction of nature in Brazil. The environmentalists are always to blame on October 28, 2019 on spiegel.de, accessed on November 15, 2019
- After the fires in the Amazon region, now the oil spill: Brazil will have to cope with the next environmental disaster on October 25, 2019 on nzz.ch, accessed on November 15, 2019
- Brazilian coast. Mysterious oil spill spreads on October 7, 2019 on tagesschau.de, accessed on November 15, 2019
- Oil spill in Brazil. 2000 kilometers of coast contaminated on November 4, 2019 on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on November 15, 2019
- Fighting the oil spill: where does the oil on Brazil's beaches come from? on October 10, 2019 from faz.net, accessed on November 15, 2019
- Environmental pollution. Difficult rescue: Brazil's marine fauna threatened by oil spill on November 6, 2019 on dw.com, accessed on November 15, 2019
- Oil spill in Brazil. This photo goes around the world on October 26, 2019 on stuttgarter-zeitung.de, accessed on November 15, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clara Cerioni: Como óleo no Nordeste se transformou em desastre ambiental inédito no país. In: com.br. EXAME, October 24, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese, with photo gallery).
- ↑ a b Lista de praias atingidas pelas manchas de óleo no litoral. In: globo.com. G1, October 8, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Carlos Madeiro: Óleo no Nordeste: O que se sabe até agora sobre a contaminação das praias. In: com.br. noticias.uol.com.br, October 22, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Mais de mil toneladas de óleo foram recolhidas das praias, diz Marinha. In: globo.com. G1, October 21, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Mysterious oil spill hits dozens of Brazil beaches . In: BBC News . October 27, 2019 ( bbc.com ).
- ↑ Dom Phillips: Brazilians rally to clean beaches amid outrage at Bolsonaro's oil spill inaction . In: The Guardian . October 22, 2019, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com ).
- ↑ Consequences of the oil spill put Bolsonaro in distress Environmental groups accuse the Brazilian president of ignoring the disaster on the northeast coast for too long. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 4, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .