As investigations on oil spillage start, Bolsonaro suggests ‘terrorism’

On October 5th, president Bolsonaro ordered the investigation of the causes of the oil spill in the Northeast. The investigations are being done by the Federal Police, Ministry of Defense, Ibama and ICMBio. When announcing the inquiry, he said: “It might be criminal, it might be an accidental spill, it can be a sunken ship as well. It’s complex. We have, in our radar, a country that can be the origin of the crude oil. Apparently the leak is not coming from an oil platform”. The president also recognized the negative impacts for tourism, a key economic activity for the Northeast in the coming summer. By October 7th, the oil patches had affected 132 localities, in 61 different municipalities in all 9 Northeast states.