[Gasification] BARZIL VEGETAL COAL ; THE MONSTER ALSO EXISTS

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

BRAZIL Vegetal coal: the monster exists Letter A-A+ Lúcio Flávio Young chicken * Adital - Between 500 and a thousand trucks the south and Southeast of Pará pass through for, with epicenter in Marabá, flowing off the production of thousand of primitive ovens, more known as quentes" "rabos;, operated for something as 20 a thousand people, who daily produce thousand of cubical meters of vegetal coal. The monster comes growing has years, but he seemed envolto in a cloudy bubble, that became it invisible. Now it was only discovered by the authorities. It was the garbage, placed for underneath of the carpet, of a expressivo polar region of iron-gusa, already if approaching to 20ª plant in operation, that if it implanted to the long one of the railroad of Carajás. Seven of them are installed in Pará, that will have to receive more five in the next months. Others 12 are of the side of the Maranhão, five of which in Açailândia. The guseiras had been if multiplying, but it was left
 stops later an obvious inquiry: of where they provém the coal that they use? While it had stocking dozen of plant, it was possible to be packed by the colloquy of that the coal was produced only from leftovers wooden of would saw them, without provoking new deforestations, and that soon this source would be substituted by the energy forests, from projects of reforestation with eucalipto. The leftovers wooden exist, the reflorestadoras intentions also. But nothing equiparável to the consumption of vegetal coal that the polar region starts to have world-wide size, of 1,5 million of tons, now needing 4,2 million cubical meters of coal to each year. The competition if incites, even so all the plants has an only ore supplier of iron, that is also the proprietor, for public concession, for the initial stated period of half century, of the railroad of Carajás: the Company Valley of the River Candy. While the assays start to attract the attention of the Cade, the agency of the
 government that combat the formation of cartel and practical of dumping, for the virtual monopoly of the CVRD in the area, Cosipar, the oldest guseira of Pará, mounted, from Marabá, an uncommon operation to carry gusa through truck, in a distance of more than 500 kilometers, in a thousand trips (without return load) to each one of the three embarkments that effected in the port of Village of the Conde. With this exploit, authentic scientific fiction in substance of mineral economy, if to support in the price has remembered (and probably ephemeral) of the product, thanks to the warm Chinese demand, Luiz Carlos Hunter, the owner of the Cosipar, waits to thus demonstrate the viability of the system of transposition of the barrage of Tucuruí, getting rid itself of the railroad monopoly of the CVRD. The canal locks still are to waver in the financial cronograma, although plus a round (literally) of federal promise, renewed for president Lula, who said to be pledged in
 inaugurating the workmanship before the end of its mandate, in already the so next year to 2006. Hunter also gained the heading of entrepreneur of the year in Pará, granted for the Federacy of the Industries. Vision of future? Nor in such a way. If the room of visits is pretty, the emergency exit is terrible. Now that it shows off itself, is difficult to prevent the shock caused in the public opinion for an activity already expurgada of almost all the countries of the world, in a process that reserved to Brazil the sad condition of only great producer of gusa to the base of vegetal coal. When the horizon started to be drawn, in 1982, with the creation of the Program Great Carajás, none of the well informed personages on this new chapter was unaware of that it was to invent the powder. A point of purchase of coal in a place any of a forest is as an invasive virus in a defenseless organism. The powder can be good, as the mining entrepreneur-engineer Luiz Carlos Hunter does
 not get tired itself to proclaim. Gusa would be the tropical iron, of better quality, favours to the vegetal coal, and that it could immunize against its disastrous effect with enormous areas of reforestation and organized production. This, in the plane tables and shows of computer science. In the reality, what if it has seen is smashingly clandestine production, desumana condition of work, followed accidents in the roads with trucks of coal transport, that pass through quick and without the which had cares, crimes if multiplying, wild competition of prices and demagógicas or inefficient measures to attack the problem. Certainly it will not be decided with unreal punitive measures, as an inflated guideline of values in 1000% in the interstate operations, to hinder the coal exportation, thus guaranteeing the suppliment guseiras them it Pará and generating more income and more tax. Exactly that he has good intention in these initiatives, them they will espicaçarão the
 monster without being able to contain it in its chaotic and wild reaction efficiently. The siderurgical places had been taken care of while the coal dealers of Pará, especially of Paragominas, had been opposed. They want to continue to vender for the plants of the Maranhão because the paraenses do not obtain to buy all for them the production. The monster already was created and fattened per years of omission and connivance. Now it is to face it of front and to find a way to domar it, fastest possible and to the lesser cost. As this boarding demands courage, ability, honesty and independence, to decide the problem requires equiparável change to a revolution in a sector where these qualities are not in the shelves. * Journalist 

       
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