Survivals Director, Stephen Corry, said today, Its a sad irony that people buy Shells ethanol as an ethical alternative to fossil fuels: theres certainly nothing ethical about its horrendous treatment of the Guarani.
Guarani man. Shell is using sugarcane planted on Guarani land. © F. Watson/Survival
Indians of the Guarani tribe in Brazil have demanded that energy giant Shell stop using their ancestral land for ethanol production.
Ambrosio Vilhalva, a Guarani man from one of the communities affected, told Survival, Shell must leave our land the companies must stop using indigenous land. We want justice, we want our land to be mapped out and protected for us.
Shell is united with Brazilian ethanol company Cosan, in a joint venture company called Raizen. Some of Raizens ethanol, sold as a biofuel, is produced from sugarcane grown on the Guaranis ancestral land.
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