Why did ACOJURVE carry out a protest on company premises in Juruti, in January 2009?
Ever since the project started being introduced the high and 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 an attempt by some 150 people to invade the Company’s base on the banks of the Juruti Velho Lake(Capiranga base) and to the blocking of the PA-192 state highway on 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 the absence of any dialogue with society. The blockade came as a surprise and threatened negotiations that aimed to deal w
