“Vale’s Crime in Brumadinho” – Solidarity & Remembrance, Two Years On
Gabriela Sarmet & Saul Jones “May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case, but as a global testimony, so that no one, anywhere in the world, may experience the terror that we are experiencing after the tragedy of the crime committed by Vale.” RENSER,...
Global Industry Standards of Tailings Management: Not Enough to Prevent Disaster
On 5 August 2020, the Global Tailings Review launched its new Global Industry Standards of Tailings Management (GISTM). These standards are aimed at preventing tailings disasters such as the Brumadinho collapse of January 2019, but in our eyes and the eyes of many of...
Bishop of Brumadinho: ‘mining companies have split communities’
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...