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Brazil’s Plans To Drill For Oil In The Amazon Hit Stiff Indigenous Resistance

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Analysis-When Facebook Blocks News, Studies Show the Political Risks That Follow

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US dollar surges to new 34-year high vs yen after hotter-than-expected inflation data

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Airlines Struggle with Lack of Planes: Is There a Stock Play?

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    Brazil’s Plans To Drill For Oil In The Amazon Hit Stiff Indigenous Resistance

    April 18, 2024

    By Marta Nogueira and Fabio Teixeira OIAPOQUE, Brazil (Reuters) – State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project, which would open the most promising part of Brazil’s northern coast to oil drilling. Environmental agency Ibama denied Petrobras a license for exploratory drilling offshore in […]
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