Conflitos e danos socioambientais na produção de energia eólica na comunidade do cumbe, Aracatí, Ceará, Brasil

Abstract

Large-scale wind energy production is essentially based on a logic of exclusive appropriation of natural resources located on the territory. They are large production units, of extraction and transformation, planned from outside, exogenous, to the place where they are implemented, whose form of installation and operation produces, contradictorily, heterogeneous structures and inequalities. In this context, this article aims to analyze the historical process and the concrete consequences of the territorialization of a wind complex in the Community of Cumbe, located in the municipality of Aracati/CE. As a method of interpretation, we sought to understand the territorial practices of the project as one of the mechanisms of accumulation through dispossession and as a regime of expropriation. The methodological procedure was based on fieldwork and interviews, and secondary data through bibliographical research, documentary and geocartographic analysis. It was found that the appropriative character of the energy complex disarticulated and fragmented territories, paradoxically leading to the depletion of the environmental systems that the traditional community enjoys through inseparable relationships, in addition to establishing conflicts and collective demobilization.