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Brazil Potash Reports Conditional Court Filing Related to Autazes Project

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Brazil Potash Corp. (NYSE-American: GRO) reported a Brazilian court filing concerning the Autazes Project.

  • The Brazilian Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU) filed an application with Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court.
  • The company has not been formally served; the application is within a Public Civil Action filed in December 2016, not a new lawsuit.
  • It seeks to overturn recent TRF-1 decisions favoring Brazil Potash and CIM and suspend Project installation activities.
  • On July 9, 2026, Brazil’s Office of the Prosecutor General (PGR) recommended no merits hearing, citing DPU’s lack of standing and an unsuitable procedural vehicle.
  • The company said its environmental licenses remain in full force; it and Brazilian counsel are evaluating the filing and preparing a response.

The company intends to defend its position and provide further updates as warranted.

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Brazil Potash Corp. (NYSE-American: GRO) has provided an update on a procedural filing in the Brazilian courts relating to the Autazes potash project in Amazonas State, Brazil.
The Brazilian Federal Public Defender’s Office, acting on behalf of certain indigenous organisations opposed to the Project, filed a Suspensão de Tutela Provisória directly with the President of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court. The application seeks to overturn recent decisions of the Federal Regional Court of the First Region and suspend installation activities related to the Project.
Brazil Potash said it became aware of the filing through publicly available court records and has not yet been formally served. The Company said the application is not a new lawsuit, does not introduce new allegations or new underlying facts, and is a procedural request within an existing Public Civil Action originally filed in December 2016.
Brazil Potash said the Federal Regional Court of the First Region has previously issued multiple favourable decisions concerning the legitimacy of the Indigenous Mura Council, the conformity of the indigenous consultation process with United Nations International Labour Organization Convention No. 169, and the validity of the free, prior and informed indigenous consultation. The Company said the consultation lasted more than six years, involved over 35 indigenous villages and culminated in an assembly in which approximately 90% of participating communities voted in favour of the Project’s continuation.
On July 9, 2026, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Brazil issued a formal opinion recommending that the application not be heard on the merits. It concluded that the Brazilian Federal Public Defender’s Office lacks standing to file the application and that the procedural vehicle is unsuitable for re-examination of facts and evidence.
Brazil Potash said the filing does not change the legal status of the Autazes Project or any of the Company’s existing environmental licences, which it said remain in full force and effect. The Company is evaluating the filing with its external Brazilian counsel and preparing its response. The application itself seeks to suspend installation activities, and the Company said it will provide further updates as warranted.
The Company said the Project has an initial planned annual potash production of up to 2.4 million tons per year and that management believes it could potentially supply approximately 20% of current potash demand in Brazil. Management anticipates that 100% of Brazil Potash’s production will be sold domestically and that this would concurrently mitigate approximately 1.4 million tons per year of GHG emissions. These are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties, and the Company cautioned readers not to place undue reliance on them.

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