…to an anniversary act of remembrance in Brazil: http://www.industriall-union.org/hundreds-gather-for-anniversary-of-mine-catastrophe-in-brazil [5] http://www.mineweb.com/news-fast-news/samarco-dam-failed-due-to-poor-drainage-and-design-investigation/ [6] http://fundaoinvestigation.com/ [7] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/20/bhp-billiton-employees-face-charges-on-brazil-dam-disaster and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/21/sorry-bhp-but-a-closed-door-hardly-shouts-transparency/ [8] https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/10/charges-bhp-billiton-vale-samarco/ [9] The Samarco tailings dam disaster is not the only area…
For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/updates-on-bhp-billitons-brazilian-dam-disaster/. BHP agrees to $US2.3b Samarco settlement BHP Billiton’s Samarco joint venture will pay up to $US2.3 billion ($A3.15 billion) over six years after reaching a…
Key points The Fundão dam at the Samarco mine (owned by Vale & BHP), Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, collapsed on 5 November 2015. 20 people died, 3 villages were destroyed…
Nilmar Lage Just before BHP’s annual general meeting on 19 October, London Mining Network published a report into Brazil’s Samarco dam disaster which devastated communities all along the Rio Doce…
…fighting a separate court decision fining Samarco $6 billion. The companies face further costs as the government proposes to toughen supervision of Samarco’s operations and ban the construction of the…
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