Be careful with Ana Paula. She's against the pre-salt oil reserves.

247 - Brazilian Greenpeace activist Ana Paula Maciel, who returned to Brazil on Saturday (28) after being imprisoned in Russia for one hundred days for participating in a protest against oil exploration in the Arctic, also positioned herself against pre-salt exploration. According to her, "it is very deep, unnecessary" and puts marine parks such as Abrolhos and Fernando de Noronha at risk. In a rather alarmist tone, she sees a risk of a large-scale environmental accident and criticizes the Chinese companies that are part of the consortium that will extract the oil. "They are companies that have traditionally been careless with regard to the environment," she says.

According to the activist, pre-salt exploration automatically generates pollution. "The problem is that we think about one generation without thinking about the next," said Ana Paula, stressing that oil extraction from the pre-salt region will contribute to accelerating environmental damage on a global scale.

Ana Paula Maciel's statements are a kind of affront to technology. By even mentioning the possibility of major environmental accidents due to the pre-salt reserves, she disregards the advances in petroleum engineering and fails to see the generation of resources that will be invested in education and health with the exploration of pre-salt reserves in Brazilian waters.