{"id":9386,"date":"2025-10-17T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:12:26","slug":"supporting-communities-is-key-to-resisting-the-advance-of-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/en\/supporting-communities-is-key-to-resisting-the-advance-of-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting communities is key to resisting the advance of fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b>Oil advances and communities resist: learn how Casa Socio-Environmental Fund strengthens grassroots initiatives<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brazil is living through a moment of deep contradictions. On one hand, there are growing alerts about droughts, smoke, and forest fires already affecting millions of people in different regions. On the other, new oil and gas projects\u2014both on land and offshore\u2014are multiplying through announcements and investments. With COP30 taking place this November in Bel\u00e9m, these tensions gain even greater relevance, placing the country under global scrutiny and adding pressure to its climate and energy decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most recent announcement came from British company BP, which revealed its biggest discovery in 25 years, in a pre-salt block in the Santos Basin (SP). The energy market celebrated the news, but it brought an uncomfortable question: how can the urgent need for decarbonization coexist with the accelerated expansion of the fossil frontier?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Maranh\u00e3o to the Middle Juru\u00e1, passing through the Equatorial Margin, the promises of oil and gas wealth fade in the reality of the territories. There, where forest meets river and the land sustains communities, what the market calls \u201cprogress\u201d arrives as a threat: weakened crops, polluted waters, and ways of life turned uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While official speeches celebrate new exploration cycles, it is these populations who experience, in their daily lives, the deepest and most unequal impacts of this energy model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This dilemma is felt directly in the territories where Indigenous peoples, riverine communities, quilombolas, fishers, and family farmers struggle every day to protect their ways of life. The extraction of hydrocarbons threatens the water, land, fishing, and agriculture that sustain thousands of families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen we talk about oil and gas exploration in the Amazon, we are also talking about social, cultural, and environmental impacts. Communities are left without information, without consultation, and projects advance as if they were inevitable. But they are not. There is resistance, and there is local knowledge capable of saying no,\u201d says <\/span>Sila Mesquita<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, coordinator of the Amazon Working Group (GTA), who closely follows the realities of the Amazon region.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9380\" style=\"width: 1082px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9380\" src=\"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-1072x714.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"714\" class=\"wp-image-9380 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-1072x714.jpeg 1072w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-650x433.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1-1080x720.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-28-at-142440-1.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Indigenous leaders from Oiapoque take a stand in defense of the Amazon and the ocean, reaffirming their opposition to oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River. Photo: GTA Archives<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet this resistance faces structural inequalities. While companies have large technical teams, political lobbying, and mass communication resources, communities must defend their rights with limited means. This is where the support of community-based socio-environmental philanthropy becomes crucial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2005, the <\/span>Casa Socio-Environmental Fund<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has supported projects that strengthen leadership, connect communities, and shed light on risks often overlooked by the public debate. Over the years, the Fund has supported 64 initiatives in Brazil and other South American countries, focused on monitoring oil spills and contamination, providing legal assistance to those defending their territories, and strengthening community responses to socio-environmental threats\u2014recognizing and empowering solutions that already exist within the communities themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Sila Mesquita, \u201cwhat\u2019s at stake is the devastation of unique ecosystems and a direct attack on Indigenous, riverine, quilombola, and small farming communities.\u201d She adds that the extraction advances in the name of so-called development, which in practice means destruction and wealth concentration. \u201cWe are witnessing a war against the Amazon and its peoples, waged in the name of false development, but which is in fact pure destruction,\u201d she states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this context, supporting communities and local organizations has been essential to confront the risks. Funding independent technical studies, for example, helps dismantle the official narratives of companies and governments, exposing the irreversible impacts of hydrocarbon extraction. Moreover, political and technical training projects have strengthened leaders who now resist not only corporate pressure but also the weight of state machinery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sila Mesquita stresses that it is fundamental for this struggle to be broadly represented\u2014showing not only the vulnerabilities but also the strength and vision of the Amazonian peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cWe cannot speak of the Amazon in abstract terms. People live here, and their lives depend on the integrity of their territories. And let\u2019s be clear: there can be no true energy transition unless it is also a social, anti-capitalist, and deeply democratic transition\u2014built from the ground up by the peoples who have cared for this forest for millennia.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Sila Mesquita, Coordinator, Amazon Working Group (GTA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Socio-environmental philanthropy strengthens communities in Maranh\u00e3o against the impacts of the gas industry<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Maranh\u00e3o, the Vale do Mearim region and the state\u2019s western coast are the stage of a quiet but decisive struggle for the future of hundreds of families. On one side, the expansion of the natural gas industry\u2014with pipelines and storage terminal projects. On the other, quilombola, forest-dwelling, and riverine communities resisting to secure their right to remain in territories inhabited for centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9378\" style=\"width: 1082px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9378\" src=\"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442-1072x656.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"656\" class=\"wp-image-9378 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442-1072x656.jpeg 1072w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442-650x398.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442-768x470.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442-1080x661.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/casa.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/whatsapp-image-2025-08-27-at-112442.jpeg 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In the Papagaio community, in Santa Rita (MA), residents face uncertainty over Eneva\u2019s plan to build a pipeline to transport gas from the Vale do Mearim to the port area of S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The situation is not isolated. Maranh\u00e3o has long faced pressure from major ventures\u2014from agribusiness to mining, ports, and highways. Now, under the promise of gas as a \u201ctransition fuel,\u201d the state finds itself at the center of Brazil\u2019s energy dispute. But for the communities, the modernization discourse does not compensate for the risks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe federal government treats gas as a strategic resource and paves the way for companies. But those living in the territories are rarely heard. It\u2019s common to see communities complaining, but no one listens. Our role is precisely to collect information, produce materials, and organize meetings and seminars so that these voices gain strength and can influence the process,\u201d explains <\/span>Mayron Borges.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project includes research, community meetings, and the production of informative materials about the impacts of the gas industry. Around 500 people will directly benefit\u2014farmers, fishers, quilombolas, and forest-dwellers\u2014along with hundreds more indirectly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support from socio-environmental philanthropy ensures this resistance continues. \u201cWith Casa Fund\u2019s support, we can travel, bring communities together, and produce materials. That\u2019s extremely valuable. It allows the struggle to continue, for information to circulate. That\u2019s what empowers communities facing such large and complex projects,\u201d says Mayron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s at stake is the right to exist of communities that have preserved the land, memory, and culture of Maranh\u00e3o for centuries. In a context of climate change and growing pressures on territories, supporting these initiatives means recognizing that a true energy transition can only be just if it listens to and respects those who alread<\/span>y live with and from nature.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Fracking in Maranh\u00e3o: ongoing risks and disputes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hydraulic fracturing, or <\/span><b>fracking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a technique for extracting gas and oil that involves injecting large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals at high pressure to fracture underground rock layers and release hydrocarbons. Despite its promise of high productivity, the practice is linked to severe impacts: aquifer contamination, seismic risk, methane emissions (a greenhouse gas far more potent than CO\u2082), and loss of farmland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Brazil, some states\u2014such as Paran\u00e1 and Santa Catarina\u2014have banned fracking, but Maranh\u00e3o has no legislation prohibiting the practice. Eneva, already operating in the state, is seeking permits to conduct studies using the technique, especially around Santo Ant\u00f4nio dos Lopes. Socio-environmental organizations warn that \u201cthere is no way to study fracking without performing it,\u201d since even initial tests involve drilling and injecting chemical fluids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The debate gained momentum in 2024 when the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) began analyzing whether the technique could be nationally authorized\u2014a decision that could open the door for fracking across Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Maranh\u00e3o, this pressure adds to a long history of vulnerability: land conflicts, water insecurity, and limited community participation in licensing processes. For social movements, the arrival of fracking in a territory already marked by socio-environmental inequality represents not only an environmental risk but also a direct threat to food sovereignty and the right of communities to remain on their land.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The words of Sila Mesquita and Mayron Borges resonate in harmony: the problem is not only environmental but one of social and climate justice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impacts of the fossil fuel industry fall disproportionately on populations already living with historical vulnerabilities\u2014lack of sanitation, poor infrastructure, and food insecurity. In this context, supporting grassroots organizations means empowering groups engaged in an unequal struggle where information, mobilization, and political advocacy become tools of survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The advance of fossil fuels in Brazil is happening alongside the worsening climate crisis. The historic drought in the Amazon in 2023, record heat in 2024, and the fires spreading this year are examples of how global warming already directly affects people\u2019s lives. Continuing to bet on oil and gas exacerbates these impacts and distances the country from its climate goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, local communities offer what large-scale projects cannot: nature-based solutions, sociobiodiversity enterprises, and sustainable ways of using land and water that ensure environmental conservation, food sovereignty, income, and cultural continuity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Casa Fund\u2019s support shows that the solutions already present in the territories can become a collective force. By strengthening community fire brigades, Indigenous alliances, and anti-fracking campaigns, each supported project becomes a thread weaving together resistance, memory, and hope\u2014showing that another path is possible beyond the predatory extractive model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting these initiatives means listening to the voice of the forest, of urban peripheries, and of traditional communities; recognizing ancestral and everyday knowledge; and valuing the creativity that thrives where few are looking. It means understanding that resisting fossil expansion is not only about blocking projects, but about opening paths for new ways forward\u2014built from the active listening of the territories that continue to care for the land, the water, and the stories they carry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil advances and communities resist: learn how Casa Socio-Environmental Fund strengthens grassroots initiatives Brazil is living through a moment of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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