INFRASTRUCTURE
Supreme Court removes hurdles for controversial ‘grain railway’
Indigenous groups attended Supreme Court sessions during the Ferrogrão trial. Photo: Pedro Ladeira/Folhapress
Ferrogrão rail project, the 933-kilometer grain railway designed to carry Mato Grosso's soy and corn northward to the Amazon river port of Miritituba, in Pará.
In a ruling with only one dissent, the justices upheld the 2017 law that shaved roughly 862 hectares off Jamanxim National Park in Pará to make room for the tracks.
The case was filed by the leftist Socialism and Freedom Party (Psol), which argued that a provisional decree — the instrument the former Michel Temer administration used in 2016, later converted into law — cannot legally shrink a protected area and that the project tramples…
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