Poconé Online International Communication Agency
In his sixth letter, the President of COP 30 exhorted countries to raise their climate ambitions, through a global joint effort:
” – We will work together, in a Global joint effort (Muxirum in the Pantanal dialect), to assure that the COP30 will be remembered as the moment when the world chose unity instead of division, action instead of procrastination, and legacy instead of inertia (our griffon) – changing by choice, together”.
Considering the climate issue, also a clarifying definition arose, with the Hydrogeological Map of Mato Grosso do Sul state, published by SGB (Brazilian Geological Service), showing the characteristics of each formation and aquifers of the states of MT and MS and in the surroundings of the Pantanal.
Hydrogeological Map of Brazil and recharge of the Aquifer Guarani:
https://www.campograndenews.com.br/meio-ambiente/aquiferos-em-ms-podem-perder-ate-28-da-recarga-de-agua-com-mudancas-climaticas
Timed as a tragedy, curtains reopened and the oldest and most destructive narrative about the Pantanal appeared illuminated by a myriad of floodlights, covered with plumes, expelling strass by compressed air cannons and amidst dry-ice fog, the WWF Brasil reappears with its scratched anti-HPP and anti-PCHs costume.
https://www.wwf.org.br/?76162/Renewable-Electric-Power-Alternatives-in-Alto-Paraguay-Basin-BAP
WWF-Brasil alerts: Small Hydroelectric Plants in the Pantanal can generate losses of R$ 7 billions
“- This analysis is supported by data from the National Agency of Waters and Basic Sanitation (ANA), the National Agency of Electric Energy (ANEEL), and it is based on the official methodology of Cost-Benefit Analysis (ACB) of the Brazilian federal government…”
What do ANA and ANEEL not support is the estimate chosen by WWF Brazil, assuming that hypothetical and “very cheap” alternatives of thermal, wind, and solar energy sources would be comparable to the total private investment, trying to mix to this sophism engendered in evil minds:
”-comparing the scenario of Small Hydroelectric Plants (PCHs) to an alternative (Myth maniac narrative of the ONG itself – our remark) a mix of renewable non-hydric energy sources (50% wind, 42% solar, 4% biomass, and 4% biogas sources of energy).”
Since PCBAP (Upper Paraguay Basin Conservation Plan) and ANA scientifically freed themselves from the shackles imported by such greedy ideological directives, analyzing an organic solution for the fast erosion from the upper river basins, choking the Pantanal wetland with sediments, disrupting its flood and drought pulses, killing rivers such as the Taquari on the plain, transforming normal rainfall into flood and drought pulses into desertification, where some regions now coexist with half a year of flooding and half a year of wildfires.
I have quitted in July but I returned in August, revolted by the myths that still dominate the News about the Pantanal, which I spent so many years repeatedly exposing denies, and for which I exhort attention, mainly from whom feel touched by the beauty of the Pantanal as the most perfect definition of what would be the possible paradise on planet Earth.
The phenomena of evaporation and infiltration impose scientifically the need to reduce the water speed, given the high slope of the upper basin, reason why the runoff carries sediments to the nearly flat Pantanal floodplain, without giving time to evaporation and enhances the effects of the local rainfall, as well as the water infiltration in the soil, the only tool that allows the recharge of the underground aquifers.
ANA and PCBAP already confirmed this at defining the PCHs and their dams as the only modern forms of recovery of the rivers and the regional fishery.
Parallel to the 40-years old inverted sense of the translation of the conclusions published by Stephen Hamilton, who stated categorically that his work was just a background of scientific data that could NOT support an absolute scientific conclusion on the effects of interventions in the Paraguay river bed over the floodplain hydrology, the origin of a theological schism that the self-indulgence and omission the still being worshiped obtusely.
Since the dawn of the 21st Century, the commercial navigation to Cáceres and Poconé (Porto Cercado) were closed, precluded by a luxurious Anti-HPP campaign by WWF Brasil, blaming tugboats and barges for destroying riverbanks, disregarding their low speed and the consequent benefits of self-dredging and removing sediments from the main channel.
An impartial technical expertise would answer the questions that the Pantanal insists on imposing:
* 25 years without HPP up to Cáceres has improved or worsened the environmental condition of the Paraguay River?
* 25 years without PCHs on the stretches of upland rivers running to the Pantanal have improved or worsened the silting condition of the rivers on the Plain?
* Are the northern affluent rivers of the right margin of the Paraguay River, such as Bugres, Cabaçal, Sepotuba and Jauru, as well as the Corixa Grande Deltaic System, the lake system at Brazil-Bolivia Frontier, and the Tucavaca river in the south, are or not important components of the Pantanal hydrology, and why they have been omitted from recharge areas on maps of the Pantanal and the Guarani Aquifer?
* Are the Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay rivers different basins or Sub-Basins of the large Prata Basin or Cuenca del Plata?
Time is come for the academy and scientific research accept the challenge posed by the President of COP 30, and join a great Global Information Muxirum, choosing, instead division to conquer, procrastination to plunder environmental commodities, and inertia of maintaining old destructive practices switched to a collective choice, together with the urban population, opting to tread the traditional “pantaneira” route to the environmental perenity and sustainability of this magnificent historical, cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic unit: The Pantanal!
Em sexta carta, presidente da COP30 convoca países a elevar ambição climática
Armando Arruda Lacerda (Porto São Pedro, Fazenda São Luiz, Corumbá-MS)
