Senator Augusto Botelho (PT-RR) called the government’s and the parliamentarians’ attention, on Tuesday (12), to the Brazilian necessity of investing in alternative energy new technologies.

- In this context, the Amazon is a fertile and little explored land that needs to be the object of research which will warrant alternative fuel production implementation - Botelho suggested.

The senator stressed the world’s search for clean technology, in view of the global warming threat, and said two actors are to be assigned to this search: venture capitalists and researchers, the latter interested in getting financing for research on clean technologies.

According to the senator, Brazil must find viable mechanisms with the purpose of developing its “silicon valley” and must invest in wind, solar, tidal and even nuclear energy. He believes that, if rules for environmental preservation are adopted, the Amazon would be propitious for the implantation of projects of this kind, in particular in the development of biotechnology, extraction and subsoil exploration, while counting on the participation of universities in partnership with the private sector.