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[Este link é para a página oficial da Fundação Renova, com informações sobre o processo de reparação. A Fundação representa a Samarco, Vale e BHP, nos processos de reparação relativos ao desastre do Rio Doce]
BHP and Vale have agreed to a $31.7 billion settlement with Brazilian authorities over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster. The settlement covers remediation, compensation, and legal claims tied to the dam collapse, with Samarco to make initial and annual payments over 20 years.
Brazil’s government filed a request before a federal court in Minas Gerais state asking that Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco pay 79.6 billion reais ($15.73 billion) for the Mariana tailings dam burst in 2015 within 15 days.
Brazil and the state of Espirito Santo have rejected a proposal by miners Vale and BHP opens regarding reparations for the deadly 2015 Mariana tailings dam burst. The statement did not include Minas Gerais state, where the disaster happened, and which said it wants to keep negotiating the current proposal.
Vale, BHP, and their joint venture Samarco, submitted a $25 billion settlement proposal to Brazilian authorities regarding reparations for the 2015 Mariana tailings dam burst.
A Brazilian judge has ruled that mining giants Vale and BHP, along with their joint venture Samarco, must collectively pay USD 9.7 billion in damages for a 2015 tailings dam collapse. The collapse in the city of Mariana resulted in a mudslide that caused 19 lives and heavily contaminated the Rio Doce River. The companies claim the judiciary did not inform them about the decision and have the option to appeal.
The former President, Fábio Schvartsman, was charged with qualified intentional homicide and environmental crimes.
The Australian mining company BHP is on the hook financially for the collapse of a tailings dam that stored mining waste at the Samarco iron ore complex in November 2015, near Mariana, Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has said publicly it wants to reach a final settlement worth potentially tens of billions of dollars of liabilities.
Brazilian federal prosecutors have accused mining giants BHP and Vale of colluding with a lawyer to reduce compensation for victims of a fatal dam collapse and interfere with a landmark lawsuit against BHP in the UK.
Brazilian federal and state prosecutors have asked a court to re-open a multi-billion-dollar civil action lawsuit against miners Samarco, Vale SA and BHP for damages caused by the Fundao dam burst in 2015. The suit had been suspended in 2018 following an agreement between prosecutors and the companies but state prosecutors alleges that the companies were not meeting their obligations in a timely fashion.