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Brazil sues BHP, Vale for 20b reais to clean up mining disaster

Suit requires BHP-Vale-owned Samarco to take immediate action to contain and reduce environmental impact of the dambust

Published Tue, Dec 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Brasilia

BRAZIL filed a lawsuit on Monday against two of the world's largest mining companies for 20 billion Brazilian reais (S$7.3 billion) to clean up what it says was its worst environmental disaster, caused by the collapse of a tailings dam.

The governments of Brazil and those of two states hit by the damburst sued iron ore operator Samarco and its co-owners, the world's largest miner BHP Billiton Ltd and the biggest iron ore miner Vale SA.

Earlier on Monday, President Dilma Rousseff blamed the disaster on the "irresponsible action of a company" in a speech to the COP21 climate change summit in Paris. "We are severely pu…

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