Munduruku and Kayapo people, along with tribes from the Xingu reservation, said in a letter to the Transport Ministry that the work group wasn’t doing its job of discussing the Ferrograo railway with all parties
Indigenous people who see a threat to their ancestral lands from the construction of a railway to carry grains to a port in the Amazon on Monday pulled out of a work group created by the government last year to advance the project.
The ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment, nor did transportation regulator ANTT or state infrastructure company Infra S.A. responsible for the project. Brazil’s Supreme Court last year suspended the plan pending more studies on the impact of the controversial railway. In their letter to the transport minister, Indigenous communities said the studies were done with no discussion or involvement of the work group, and that transportation regulator ANTT has already decided to go ahead and open bids for the construction of the railway.
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