 So he thought that was not right, that the private company has more say than the Ministry of Environment in who has access to the Amazon and who gets to monitor things. And so he said he quit after that moment. Homer says that over the years, those oil companies have spent a lot of time courting local residents to allow development on community land. But once the ink dries on a contract, the oil companies and their financial support, they disappear. To Homer, it feels like deception.