Vale has presented a revised timetable, outlining the complete elimination of all dam structures constructed using the upstream raising method by 2035.
The breach of mining giant Vale’s dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, took the lives of 272 people. Three are yet to be located. Efforts have surpassed 1,400 days.
“Not a single group of people affected—field and laundry workers, artisans, fisherpeople, small business owners—was fully compensated. The environment has also not been fully recovered", according to prosecutor and task force coordinator Silmara Goulart.
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry reported today (Aug 1) it has been keeping a close watch on the developments of the political crisis in Paraguay sparked by the release of the minutes of the deal between the two countries on the purchase of electric energy produced by hydroelectric d
The level of copper in the Paraopeba river is up to 600 times the amount allowed in rivers used for human consumption, irrigation for food production, fishing, and leisure activities.
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