Seven charged over Samarco dam disaster

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Seven charged over Samarco dam disaster

By Daniel Gallas
South America Business Correspondent

23 February 2016 Business

Brazilian authorities have charged the president of mining company Samarco and six others with homicide for the mining disaster that killed 19 people last November.

Police in Minas Gerais State have asked for Ricardo Vescovi, along with five other Samarco executives and one contractor to be arrested.

Samarco is owned by Brazil's Vale and mining giant BHP Billiton.

On Tuesday police presented the first official report into the incident.

A dam associated with the mine burst in the town of Mariana , flooding with mud villages nearby and causing significant environmental damage to a major river.

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1. Finally ! nt

[angstlessk]

2. Regarding the Johnstown Flood

No one was indicted...it was the rich who was at fault during the Gilded Age, so no one was responsible.

We are going there again..and the latest trade agreement the "TPP" will sue the folks who lived (and died) in Johnstown for the profits they would have made had the flood not happened.

[Nihil]

3. If they are Brazilian execs, they'll probably face trial. If they are American, they never will.

In the latter case, they will simply flee the country back to the USA and
every successive administration (regardless of "red" or "blue&quot will ensure
that they live their lives in peaceful, happy luxury even if the death toll
had been in the thousands (rather than "merely" 19).

(Warren Anderson - may your name be cursed for all time - lived for a further
30 years of obscene excess and not one US administration gave even a little
shit for his part in over 16,000 deaths and thousands of permanent disabling
injuries.)