The aims of this research is to examine the Environmental Education Program (PEA) in the Sossego Project (mine of prospective copper exploration), Vale S/A enterprise located in “Canaan dos Carajás” city, Southeast of Pará State, identify the basic principles of the PEA, to understand the dynamics employed by “Vale” in the preparation of PEA and find out whether or not PEA promotes social and environmental transformations in the community of Bom Jesus village, leading to better quality of life and strengthening citizenship. The Amazon is not a region characterized as a movable frontier, but rather a region that has acquired its own dynamics, presenting scenarios that are configured for development. The process of development of the Amazon is based on the dynamic regional location, which itself behind trends of past policies, current policies and spontaneous processes of social groups, the regional impacts of recovery planning by the Union (Brazil in Action Program, 1996, Advance Brazil , 2000-2003), world market and national and international policys; of the speed with that changes happen, differentiated social and territorially in function of the access to the technology, networks and financial resources, and finally the new meaning of geopolitics, that is no longer as focus on the conquest of territories but ownership of the decision on its use. Therefore, the Amazon territory is understood as a space that should be preserved primarily to ensure survival of the planet; yet this understanding the Amazon coexists simultaneously with economic and mercantile interests, which are expressed in a process of marketization of nature and ownership of power of decision of the state over land use. Environmental Education is presented as a management tool in the context of discussions regarding the Amazon, that while as make educative, has commitments to individual and collective changes, local and global, structural and cyclical, economic and political. The Environmental Education is a powerful instrument in the socioambiental analysis of the Amazon to have commitment with the social equality, equity of rights, respect for differences and the various forms of knowledge and environmental justice; elements strongly present in the Amazon territory. The research will have a exploratory and descriptive character based on interdisciplinary theoretician-methodological presupposition. The research has it theoretical foundation in the literature of environmental management, local development and economy- ecology, environmental education, Amazon Geopolitics. The survey results showed that the implantation of Sossego Project in the town of Canaan dos Carajás, produce negative impacts on the community of Bom Jesus village insted to generates development. The indicators show that the community experience daily problems with education, housing, basic sanitation, water supply, power distribution, employment, violence etc. The relationship between Vale and the community is not efficient and nor it assures the democratic process of the community in taking of decisions.
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