(17 Jun 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 17 June 2025
1. Various of Indigenous people dancing and chanting in protest against the auction of dozens of oil blocks, including ones near the mouth of the Amazon River
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosines Kamunu, Indigenous woman from Manoki people:
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“Our territories are being invaded, and we have nowhere else to go. That’s where we’re from — we have nowhere to leave to.
3. Indigenous people dancing and chanting
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rosines Kamunu, Indigenous woman from Manoki people:
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"We can no longer accept the violation of our rights.”
5. Car entering building where oil auction is taking place
6. Pan from building to demonstration
7. Giovani Tapura, 45-year-old, Indigenous man from Manoki people, speaking with someone
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Giovani Tapura, 45-year-old, Indigenous man from Manoki people:
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“We know this is going to affect us. We live in a region with clean drinking water, a very beautiful area, and once that drilling happens, we know it will pollute our environment.”
9. People at the demonstration
10. Various of woman having her face painted
11. Demonstrators outside building
STORYLINE:
Indigenous people and activists protested on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro as Brazil auctioned dozens of oil blocks including the mouth of the Amazon River.
The auctions took place in a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro and were conducted by the National Oil Agency.
Most of the 172 blocks for sale are located in areas with no current production, such as 47 offshore locations close to the Amazon River and two sites at an inland territory in the Amazon near Indigenous territories.
In total, at least 19 offshore blocks near the Amazon River were awarded to oil companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petrobras and CNPC.
The area is considered highly promising because it shares geological characteristics with Guyana, where some of the largest offshore oil discoveries of the 21st century have been made.
This region is considered to have high potential risk due to its strong currents and the proximity to the Amazon seashore.
“We can no longer accept the violation of our rights,” said Rosines Kamunu, a woman from Indigenous Manoki people in the state of Mato Grosso.
Under public pressure from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, known as IBAMA, approved an emergency plan allowing state-run Petrobras to conduct exploratory drilling in a block near the mouth of the Amazon River, the last step to grant an environmental license.
Brazil’s National Oil Agency said the auctions are part of the country’s energy diversification strategy aimed at transitioning to a low-carbon economy and that contracts signed with the winning companies include measures to reduce carbon intensity in production activities, as well as mandatory investments in energy transition projects.
Brazil has increased its crude oil production, which became the country’s top export for the first time last year, surpassing soybeans.
The auction is part of the federal government’s goal to maintain and even expand output beyond 2030, when production from current oil blocks under exploration is expected to decline.
The country gets most of its electricity from hydropower and other green energies.
AP video by Mario Lobão
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