O licenciamento ambiental de postos revendedores de combustíveis no Município de Salvador/ BA: análise crítica do marco jurídico vigente

Abstract

Technological development has provided great social advances but it has also led to strong pressures on natural resources in the world. In the face of responsibility for remediation for environmental damage caused by the use of natural resources as productive of raw materials, the idea of atonement for damage does not guarantee a healthy standard of living because once degradation of the environment and its wealth is completed it may be difficult to return to nature’s previous level of quality. Reflecting upon such issues, this study has as its objectives to reveal environmental licensing within a critical analysis of procedures, of its administrative expertise and its legislative structure with an emphasis on gasoline stations in the municipality of Salvador, state of Bahia. It also describes the environmental legislation and the present environment situation in Salvador. It will look into environmental licensing in the light of environmental legislation in force and assess the approach to mandatory licensing for works and activities which make use of natural resources. Still yet, it gleans registers of incidents of installations and storage systems for oil derivatives and other fuels which represent pollutants and causers of environmental accidents. Thus, the article underscores the hypothesis that city laws do not provide all the necessary instruments which will guarantee that operation of gasoline stations in Salvador will not bring risks to the city environment. It is in this sense that an attempt was made to use a methodology with a descriptive analysis supported by bibliographic references, whose qualitative method has contributed in explaining concepts and indications of environmental impacts and the feasibility of their control.