摘要：From the beginning of construction of oil platforms in the country, the Brazilian market is absorbing the riches that these originate. The cities where the Polo Naval is located tend directly to absorb the financial and economic impacts generated by the installation of the marine industry. The Rio Grande city is the target of the changes caused by the Polo Naval installation. In this context, the general objective of the study was to determine how environmental costs are treated in a shipyard in the southern of Rio Grande do Sul. In order to achieve the proposed goal, operationalized is a case study in a private company in the industry shipbuilding. This research, exploratory, made use of multiple sources of evidence. Thus, the data were collected through document analysis, semi-open interviews and systematic observation. The results indicate that the organization has analyzed environmental costs, mainly related to the maintenance of environmental processes. Moreover, it infers that the organization needs to consider the theme of environmental costs through a program of environmental policies and, consequently, develop a mechanism for the settlement, subject to use fees from the cost center approach.
