The federal government sent notifications to 11 countries requesting clarifications over the 30 countries mapped as part of the probes into the source of the oil spills that reached a number of beaches in the Brazilian Northeast, the coordinator for operations with the Brazili
Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said Wednesday (Oct 9) that the oil that has polluted a number of beaches on the coast of Brazil’s Northeast comes “very likely” from Venezuela.
President Jair Bolsonaro said today (Oct 8) that the oil reaching the coast of Northeast Brazil since last month may have been “criminally” spilled. “It’s a volume that hasn’t been constant. If a ship had sunk, oil would still be coming out.