Nos meandros da Tecnonatureza: conflito socioambiental e resistência pesqueira em Jardim Gramacho, Duque de Caxias - RJ

Abstract

This work debates the socioenvironmental conflict between the company Gás Verde S.A., Jardim Gramacho Methropolitan Landfill´s manager, and Jardim Gramacho surrounding population, particularly the artisanal fishers in Duque de Caxias. The conflict is motivated by technologic fails that promised to mitigate the historical socioenvironmental impacts at Jardim Gramacho Methropolitan Landfill and generate renewable energy for the REDUC Petrochemical Pole. The slurry leakage by the company that should be threating it intensifies the environmental/water degradation from the bay Baía de Guanabara and the mangrove forest at Baixada Fluminense, highly impacting the natural conditions for artesanal fishing reproduction in the region. For the last six years, this conflict has also spread to legal sphere. The Company has signed a Conduct Adjustment Agreement (TAC, in Portuguese initials) with Instituto Estadual do Meio Ambiente – INEA (State Environment Institute), which is questioned by the Ministério Público Federal – MPF (Federal Public Ministry). This research mobilizes as theoretical frameworks the field of socioenvironmental from Latin-american Political ecology and Philosophy of Technology, especially based on the work from Adrew Feenber. As part of the methodology, semistructured interviews will be conducted with a leader of Caxias fishing colony and a board member of TECMA Meio Ambiente, company that managed the Gás Verde S.A. facilities. A documental analysis will also be part of methodology, analising the judicial proceedings. The TAC’s role will be emphasized, aiming at testing the hypothesis that its signature reinforces the invisibility of the fishing traditional communities in the region. As main conclusions are presented for debate: (1) the socioenvironmental conflicts judicialization; (2) the idea of fake solutions for environmental issues (3) the subsistence conditions of artisanal fishing in Duque de Caxias.