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To: TobagoJack who wrote (35485)	6/6/2008 10:53:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217664

Swedish guy talked too much. Got people upset. Paying dearly. Sweids guy went out and said: We can buy the whole Amazon jungle for 52 billion. I own quite a lot of it. Lets put together some money and buy it. For what he said that! People discovered he's got the Gethal woodmill. Irregular. Environment agency goes there and fine him: BRL450 million. Why he didn;t not profit nicely. Keep quiet. Not mingle with Environmentalist... It is going to be get worse. All owners now will be investigated and deal ruthlessly according to the rule of the law. British charity 'bewildered' by Amazon inquiry: spokesman May 27, 2008 LONDON (AFP) — British-based environmental group Cool Earth said on Tuesday it was "bewildered" by reports that its co-founder was being investigated by Brazilian authorities over comments he made about the Amazon. The O Globo newspaper reported on Monday that Brazilian police and intelligence services were investigating Cool Earth's millionaire co-founder Johan Eliasch -- a British-Swedish national -- for comments he allegedly made claiming that all of the Amazon could be bought for 50 billion dollars. Brazil's new Environment Minister Carlos Minc said he was shocked by the report, and that one of his first acts in his new post would be to open an inquiry into the matter. "It's bewildering because we do not own any lands in Amazonas, we fund various protection projects through our partners," Cool Earth Director Matthew Owen told AFP. He added that Cool Earth had received "no information" about an inquiry in Brazil. "We are aware it's been announced in the press but we've had no information whatsoever ... We are a quite high profile charity and we've done a great deal in a year to channel funds into conservation and protection," Owen said. "The ownership of the Amazon is a very politicised topic and understandably the government wants to understand what all players are doing. "We are successful in bringing ... funding in the Amazon protection but there is no evidence whatsoever that we infringed any regulations." A source close to Eliasch, the 46-year-old boss of the Head sports equipment company and an environmental adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, claimed the investigation was started to "whip up nationalism for political purposes." According to Owen, Cool Earth doesn't "own any land in Amazonas, we fund conservation projects but we are not interested in owning lands which we think would be an inappropriate use of a UK-based charity." He said that around 32,000 hectares of land were "protected" by funds provided by Cool Earth in Brazil and Ecuador, and added that the group was looking at funding similar projects in Peru. The source close to Eliasch estimated that around 70 percent of the Amazon was owned by the Brazilian federal government, with 20 percent owned by indigenous tribes and the remainder in private hands. At a 2006 conference, the source said, Eliasch had linked deforestation in the Amazon with storms in the Gulf of Mexico, which cost insurers 75 billion dollars, and suggested that the Amazon could be preserved for around a third of that cost.