RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency Ibama said Thursday it has licensed a unit of the state-run oil company Petrobras to start building a controversial gas pipeline cutting through pristine Amazon forest.
Petrobras and environmentalists have quarreled since 2001 over the planned 550-kilometer (345-mile) pipeline from the oil- and gas-producing region of Urucu in Amazonas state to the city of Porto Velho in Rondonia state.
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