Cases / Tanker / shipping · Brazil · 2022
Brazil regulator cancels Karpowership floating power plant permits
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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Brazil's electricity regulator ANEEL cancelled authorisations for Karpowership's floating thermal plants in August 2022. The company had also been exempted from environmental impact assessment, and at stake is whether such plants can run without a full review.
What?
Brazil's electricity regulator revoked Karpowership's authorisations for floating thermal plants; the company had also been exempted from environmental impact assessment. eixos
Where?
Brazil; the plant locations are not stated in the sources reviewed
When?
Authorisations revoked in August 2022; the date of the exemption is not stated. eixos
Who?
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
The sources record an EIA exemption and ANEEL's revocation of the authorisations, without giving the order of events or the reasons. eixos
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What happened
The record, in order.
eixos reported in August 2022 that ANEEL revoked Karpowership's authorisations for floating thermal plants in Brazil.
The Turkish company had also been exempted from environmental impact assessment; the sources do not give the date or basis of that exemption.
In court and with insurers
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Lawsuits and rulings
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Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record The sources do not say who granted the EIA exemption, or on what basis.
- None on record The sources do not say whether the plants were operating when the authorisations were revoked.
- None on record The sources do not state the environmental or community effects of the plants in Brazil.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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