Ceran’s Basic Environmental Project is integrated by 27 specific programs, related to physical, biotic and socio-economic-cultural measures, and foresees the compensation of all occasional impacts caused by developments of this size.
The Environmental Education Program carried out in the seven cities directly involved in the Ceran Complex trained 175 teachers from 88 schools.
In conjunction with the cities in the area of the Complex’s influence Ceran prepared the ‘Environmental Conservation and Use of Surroundings and Reservoir Waters of the Rio das Antas Energy Complex Plan’. This Plan is available as a technical aid for the development of Guidance Plans for the cities involved.
The entire compensation process was discussed with land owners, trade unions and city halls, so that it would be transparent and fair. In the area of the Monte Carlo HPPCeran took over 75 properties and relocated six families. In constructing the Castro Alves Hydroelectric Power Plant, 161 properties were taken over, there being no need to relocate any families. For the 14 do Julho Hydroelectric Power Plant, 453 properties were acquired and 32 families relocated. The relocation process is accompanied during the stages prior to the changes, afterwards and during the adaptation period in the new location, consisting of at least two years.
The development of this program resulted in the documentary “Travessias: Memórias do Rio das Antas” (Crossings - Memories of the Antas River), a photographic collection and documentation of interviews carried out in the cities in the Ceran Complex's area of influence.
Identify and monitor the terrestrial vertebrate species in the stages of the Power Plants implementation and operation, in addition to rescuing fauna during the stages of deforestation and reservoir flooding (relocation of rescued fauna by boat), identifying environments for release and guidance for their displacement. After flooding the reservoirs, a comparison will be established between the two stages.
The program includes monitoring deforestation of the construction sites and reservoirs, carrying out the rescue of epiphytes and endemic species and transplant of species that may not be cut down; monitoring of forest hillsides alongside the reservoirs and rock outcrops; collection of forest seeds in the region of the Complex; gathering of material for scientific collections and the implementation of a seed collection and sapling production area.
Ceran released a Primer about the environmental education program. There are...
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