GEO Brasil - UNEP

the State of Activities in Marine and Coastal Areas
the state of the environmet in Brazil
January 2001 An accident with a ship called Jessica caused over 150,000 barrels of fuel to leak at the Galapagos
Archipelago;
16 February 2001 Another Petrobrás pipeline leaked 4,000 thousands litres of diesel into the Caninana stream,
which is a tributary of the Nhundiaquara, one of the main rives in that region This leak caused
severe damages to the local mangrove swamps and also contaminated the local flora e fauna
Ibama prohibited all fishing activities until the month of March;
14 April 2001 An accident with a Petrobrás lorry on Road BR-277, between Curitiba and Paranaguá,
caused the leak of almost 30,000 litres of oil into the Padre and Pintos rivers;
15 April 2001 An oil known as MS 30, which is an asphalt emulsion, leaked and reached the Passaúna river,
in the town of Araucária, in Curitiba metropolitan area;
20 May 2001 A train belonging to Ferrovia Noroeste derailed and leaked 35,000 litres of diesel in an
Environmental Preservation Area in Campo Grande, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul;
30 May 2001 A Petrobrás pipeline broke in Barueri, in the State of São Paulo, and caused 200,000 litres of oil
to leak The oil spread over three luxurious properties in the local Tamboré Condominium and
reached the Tietê river and the Cachoeirinha stream;
15 June2001 The Galvão Construction Company was fined R$ 98,000 or the leak of LPG (liquefied
petroleum gas) from a Petrobrás pipeline at km 20 of Castelo Branco Motorway, one of the
main roads in the State of São Paulo The accident happened while the company was working
for the state government, and generated a fine applied by Cetesb;
11 August 2001 An oil leak spread over 30 km along the beaches of the State of Bahia, between Buraquinho and
Costa do Sauípe The oil comes from Arab sources;
15 August 2001 715 litres of oil leaked from the Princess Marino, a ship anchored at the Ilha Grande Bay, in
Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro;
20 September 2001 A gas leak was observed at Petrobrás’s Pitanga Station, 46 km from Salvador, in Bahia The
leak contaminated 150 m of a mangrove swamp;
5 October 2001 A ship was unloading oil at a Petrobrás’s monobuoy 8 km off the coast when 150 litres of oil
leaked towards São Francisco do Sul, on the north of the State of Santa Catarina;
18 October 2001 Norma, a tanker belonging to Transpetro, a Petrobrás subsidiary company, was transporting
naphtha when it hit a rock in the Paranaguá Bay, in the State of Paraná, and leaked 392,000 litres
of that product, contaminating a 3,000 m 2 area The accident also caused the death of a diver,
Mr Nereu Gouveia, 57, who had dived to evaluate the conditions of the hull
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