The Lowdown: May is National Safety Stand-Down Month April 3, 2019 By Pamela Simpson What’s coming up for your construction clients? The 6th annual National Safety Stand-Down takes place May 6-10, 2019. First initiated...
Brazil Mining Giant Vale Warns Another Tailings Dam Could Collapse March 25, 2019 By Diane Jeantet Brazilian mining giant Vale said Saturday [March 23] that communities in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais have been ordered...
Brazil’s Backlash over Vale Dam Disaster Deepens with Mine Closure, Frozen Funds March 19, 2019 By Peter Millard Vale SA’s shares declined on Monday as the world’s biggest iron ore producer faced continued backlash from Brazilian authorities after...
Brazil Miner Vale Fired Inspection Firm for Refusing to Certify Dam’s Safety: Prosecutors March 6, 2019 By Christian Plumb and Marcelo Rochabrun Brazilian iron ore miner Vale fired an inspection firm because the company refused to certify one of its dams as...
Groundwater Near Most Coal Plants Polluted by Coal Ash: Environmental Groups March 4, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their coal ash dumps...
Vale CEO and Several Senior Execs Resign After Deadly Brazil Dam Disaster March 4, 2019 By Marta Nogueira and Gram Slattery Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA Chief Executive Fabio Schvartsman and several other senior executives resigned on Saturday in what...
Brazil Prosecutors Seek Arrest of Vale Executive after Tailings Dam Disaster February 25, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian federal prosecutors are seeking the arrest of a Vale SA senior executive, authorities said on Friday, following the collapse...
Vale’s Senior Management Unaware of Dam Risk Report, Says CFO February 13, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Senior management at Brazilian miner Vale were never shown internal security documents indicating that its dam at Brumadinho was at...
Brazil Miner Vale Knew Its Tailings Dam Had Higher Risk of Collapse: Reuters February 12, 2019 By Stephen Eisenhammer Vale SA , the world’s largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in...
Audit of Burst Brazil Tailings Dam Raised Concerns over Drainage, Monitoring February 6, 2019 By Ricardo Brito A report commissioned by Brazilian miner Vale SA last year, to look into the stability of a tailings dam that...