Brazil Police Accuse Mining Firm Vale, Auditor of Fraud Related to Deadly Dam Collapse September 23, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian federal police proposed criminal charges against Vale SA, auditor TÜV SÜD and 13 of their employees, alleging fraud in...
Waste from Chinese-Owned Nickel Plant Spills into Papua New Guinea Bay August 29, 2019 By Melanie Burton and Tom Daly Waste from a nickel plant in Papua New Guinea owned by Metallurgical Corporation of China spilled into the adjacent Basamuk...
Mining Firm Vale Must Fix All Damages from Deadly Dam Collapse: Brazil Court July 10, 2019 A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday convicted mining company Vale SA for damages caused by the deadly rupture of a...
Aging Oil Pipelines Operated by Canada’s Enbridge Raise Fears over Great Lakes Spills June 10, 2019 By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams Fears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging U.S. pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future...
Global Mining Firms Reveal Safety Plans for Tailings Dams After Deadly Brazil Disasters June 10, 2019 By Shriya Ramakrishnan and Sangameswaran S. Global miners BHP Group, Anglo American Plc and Glencore Plc revealed details on tailings dams, months after ethical investors sought...
Vale’s Gongo Soco Mine Tailings Dam Faces 10%-15% Risk of Collapse: Brazil Official May 21, 2019 Brazilian miner Vale‘s tailings dam in the town of Barao de Cocais in Minas Gerais has up to a 15%...
WCD’s Spessard Joins Beazley to Head Expanded Environmental Claims Team May 20, 2019 Specialist insurer Beazley has hired Cal Spessard to head the team responsible for handling claims arising from the company’s environmental...
Brazil’s Vale Warns Another Mine Tailings Dam at Risk of Collapse May 17, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA told prosecutors in the state of Minas Gerais that a dam is at risk...
Brazil’s Vale to Invest $2.5B in Technology to Prevent Mining Dam Disasters: Reuters May 10, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazil’s Vale said on Thursday that it plans to invest $2.5 billion over the next five years in technology that...
Mining Giant BHP Faces $5B Damages Claim over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster May 8, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5.0 billion damages claim in England for being “woefully negligent” in the...