Brazil's Oil Giant Must Assess the Impact of Drilling on Indigenous Communities

Brazil’s environmental protection agency has required state-held oil and gas giant Petrobras to conduct a series of studies on how its plan to drill in an environmentally sensitive area offshore the mouth of the Amazon River would impact indigenous communities. In recent weeks, the agency, Ibama, has sent the requests to Petrobras, asking it to carry out studies on the “social, cultural and environmental” impact its plan to drill would have, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the documents it had seen.   Petrobras…