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24 Jul 2024

Autor:
Reuters,
Autor:
Conjur

Brazil: BHP to stop funding legal action to hold up Mariana dam claim, London court rules

“BHP must stop funding legal action to halt Mariana dam claim, court rules”, 23 Jul 2024

BHP Group must stop funding legal action seeking to halt some Brazilian municipalities from bringing a multi-billion pound claim over one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, London's High Court ruled on Tuesday.

More than 720,000 Brazilians, including around 50 municipalities, are suing BHP

over the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam, which was owned and operated by its Samarco joint venture with Brazilian iron ore miner Vale…

The claimants in June filed an injunction against BHP after Brazilian Mining Association IBRAM filed a motion in Brazil's Supreme Court seeking to stop the municipalities from continuing the London case on the grounds that doing so represented a threat to Brazil's sovereignty.

BHP, the world's biggest miner by market value, is a member of IBRAM and funded it to make the claim at the Supreme Court…

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