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EnergyNorway s Hydro to buy LNG for Brazil plant in carbon-reduction push Reuters 2 minutes read Norwegian metals maker Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL) said on Friday it has struck a preliminary deal with New Fortress Energy (NFE.O) to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) for its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil, switching the energy source from fuel oil. Supply of LNG by the U.S.-based energy company to the Barcarena municipality is expected to start in 2022 under a 15-year deal, according to Hydro. The project is supporting Hydro s climate strategy and its global commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, the Oslo-based company said in a statement. ....
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. New Fortress Energy to Supply Natural Gas to Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte Alumina Refinery in the State of Pará, Brazil April 15, 2021 GMT NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 15, 2021 New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) (“NFE” or the “Company”) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with a subsidiary of Norsk Hydro (“Hydro”) to supply natural gas to the Alunorte Alumina Refinery in Pará, Brazil for a term of 15 years. “We look forward to this long-term partnership and are pleased to assist Hydro with the transition of the Alunorte refinery to utilizing a cleaner and more affordable supply of energy,” said Wes Edens, Chairman and CEO of New Fortress Energy. ....
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Full article If all this volume were shipped, Brazil could even surpass the export record set for a single month – around 14.85 million tons – registered in April 2020 Brazilian soy shipments this month should reach 15 million tons, which could establish a new record for a month, according to the maritime agency Cargonave, considering the 250 ships in the export line-up, a growth of more than 40% compared to the number seen in the same period last year. If all this volume were shipped, Brazil could even surpass the export record set for a single month – around 14.85 million tons – registered in April 2020, as registered by government data. However the logistic challenges are great, especially in a rainy season like this year, which delays the loading of soy from the field to the ports, according to experts. ....
Multiple Authors Article The igarapé, a large stream, serves as the lifeblood for so many quilombola communities in the Amazon region as a source for food and water and medium of transport. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto. The absence of data worsens the damage caused by the novel coronavirus in quilombola communities–descendants of escaped African and Afro-Brazilian slaves–located throughout the Amazon. According to a COVID-19 observatory Quilombola communities in the Brazilian Amazon have already been devastated by the advance of commercial and state interests on their ancestral territories. A traditionally forest and river-dependent peoples, their rural livelihoods have often kept them on the outside of Brazil’s social and economic successes over the years. With limited access to formal education, health services and economic opportunities, their struggle is fundamentally a constitutional one: to be counted and accounted for in the f ....