LONDON, Oct 21 — BHP is cynically trying to avoid its responsibility for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, lawyers representing thousands of victims told London’s High...
BHP faces £36b lawsuit over Brazil dam collapse and country’s worst environmental disaster, accused of dodging responsibility, UK court told
The dam’s collapse unleashed a wave of toxic sludge that killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests and polluted the length of the Doce River. The lawsuit, one of the largest in English legal history, entered a decisive stage on Monday with the beginning of a 12-week trial to determine whether BHP is liable.
“Although that is BHP’s choice, it cannot properly now claim to be a company ‘doing the right thing’ by the victims of the disaster,” Choo Choy added.BHP argues it did not own or operate the dam, which held minings waste known as tailings. It said a Brazilian subsidiary of its Australian holding company was a 50 per cent shareholder in Samarco, which operated independently.
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