London, October 21 (EFE).- The trial in which the Australian mining company BHP responds to a class action lawsuit for the damages caused in the Mariana disaster in 2015, in Brazil , considered one of the major ecological disasters in history, It began this Monday in a commercial court in London under the Supreme Court.
Mariana’s case is expected to be resolved over about 12 weeks, until January 2025, before the United Kingdom Justice against the complaint filed by more than 620,000 plaintiffs who sought compensation for damages estimated at 36,000 million pounds (46.8 billion dollars, more than 43.1 billion euros) for the aforementioned tragedy.
The disaster began on November 5, 2015 as a result of the rupture of the Bento Rodrigues dams, controlled by the company Samarco, a company jointly managed by BHP and the Brazilian group Vale, when the retaining walls of the Fundão and Santarém dams, located in the Bento Rodrigues, about 35 kilometers from the center of Mariana, in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil).
The biggest environmental disaster in the history of Minas Gerais left 19 dead and dumped around 40 million cubic meters of toxic sludge into the communities, the Doce River and the Atlantic Ocean.
Last July, the two mining companies agreed to finally pay 50% of the compensation in transactions opened in Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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2024-10-21 10:01:00
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