Why did ACOJURVE carry out a protects on company premises in Juruti, in January 2009?
Ever since the Project started being introduced the great pre-existing social tensions, resulting from the many social and economic woes of the western Para region, have led a group of inhabitants from Juruti Velho to view Alcoa as the immediate solution for these woes and to demand investments and actions from the Company that are the responsibility of public authorities and not a private company. On January 27, 2009, at the time of the World Social Forum in Belém, these tensions led to na attempt to invade the Company’s base on the banks of the Juruti Velho Lake(Capiranga base) by some 150 people and the blocking of the PA-192 state highway as of January 30, which isolated a fundamental part of the work by preventing the transportation of people and equipment. The supposed reason for the invasion was the non-compliance by Alcoa with the Law and regulations and also the absence of dialogue with society. The blockade caused surprise and threatened negotiations that aimed to deal with a
