Brazil to sue mining firm for $5.2bn

The Brazilian government says it will sue mining company Samarco $5.2bn for the environmental damage caused after a waste water dam at an iron-ore mine collapsed. At least 13 people died when the dam burst earlier this month in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais A village was destroyed and drinking water polluted. Environment Minister […]

The Brazilian government says it will sue mining company Samarco $5.2bn for the environmental damage caused after a waste water dam at an iron-ore mine collapsed.
At least 13 people died when the dam burst earlier this month in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais
A village was destroyed and drinking water polluted.
Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said money was needed for recovery and to compensate victims.
“It is not a natural disaster, it is a disaster prompted by economic activity, but of a magnitude equivalent to those disasters created by forces of nature,” she said.