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...Vale said it “remains committed to supporting the full reparation of the damages caused by the Fundão dam collapse”....
...In 2019, a tailings dam owned by Vale burst near the town of Brumadinho in the same state of Brazil, resulting in 270 deaths....
...The mining project where the tailings dam collapsed was owned and operated by Samarco, a Brazilian company jointly owned by BHP and Vale....
...A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore producer Samarco along with its owners Vale and BHP to pay R$47.6bn ($9.7bn) in compensation for a dam collapse that triggered one of the country’s worst environmental...
...A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore producer Samarco, along with its owners Vale and BHP, to pay R$47.6bn ($9.7bn) in compensation for a dam collapse that triggered one of the country’s worst environmental...
...Five years ago, another tailings dam owned by Vale collapsed in the same state near the town of Brumadinho, resulting in 270 fatalities. Additional reporting by Beatriz Langella...
...Protecting dams from heavy rains is a growing focus for hydropower operators: several dams in France have been equipped with special systems to help them release water....
...A US jury award of $60mn in damages to a mother who said her baby died after consuming Reckitt’s Enfamil baby formula was $35mn more than the sum sought by the plaintiff’s lawyers, not $25mn more as...
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...Other maps and charts from the war June 2023: Destruction of Kakhovka dam Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6, floodwaters devastated towns and villages downstream...
...Ukrhydroenergo, the state-owned manager of Ukraine’s hydropower plants, said the dam remained intact and that the situation was “under control”....
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...Dams are one solution. The country’s large dams can currently store about 4 cubic kilometres, de Waal says....
...Thus, come November, this might help staunch the damage to global security already created by Trump’s comments. Richard WolframOld Greenwich, CT, US...
...But Inga 3 would be far larger — the largest hydropower dam in the world, once built — with output roughly double that of China’s Three Gorges Dam....
...Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called for a “detailed investigation” of the Kakhovka dam explosion, as he continues to act as a mediator between Kyiv and Moscow....
...Article 56 states specifically that dams and nuclear power plants, “shall not be made the object of attack . . . if such attack may cause . . . great civilian damage”....
...European Council president Charles Michel has described the destruction of the Kakhovka dam as a “war crime” and said that “Russia and its proxies” would be held accountable for it....
...The Kremlin described Tuesday’s Kakhovka dam blast in Ukraine as a “deliberate act of sabotage” as Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the damage....
...German chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the destruction of the Kakhovka dam added a “new dimension” to the conflict in Ukraine....
...The blast that destroyed a dam in the Ukrainian region of Kherson on Tuesday came from inside the engine room, according to Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s state-owned hydropower company....
...The EU has blamed Russia for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and said that it “may constitute a violation of international law”, as Brussels readied humanitarian and emergency response aid.Describing...
...The International Atomic Energy Agency has said there is “no immediate nuclear safety risk” to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, after the blast at the Kakhovka dam on Tuesday disrupted its cooling supply...
...Videos posted on social media showed water surging through an enormous hole in the dam....
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