Vale (NYSE: VALE) is asking regulatory bodies in Brazil to extend a deadline for removing 23 upstream tailing dams located in the state of Minas Gerais due to a "technical impossibility" to meet the current February 25 deadline.
Upstream dams are the type of the structures that 2015 yilda Marianada muvaffaqiyatsizlikka uchradi, and Brumadinho in 2019. The first disaster killed 19 people and the second accident 270 kishi halok bo'ldi.
Vale, which owns most dams related to iron ore production in Minas Gerais, has eliminated four upstream dams in the state since 2019 and another three in Pará state, where a total of 30 belong to the company.
Rio-de-Janeyroda yashovchi konchi{0}}oʻzining yuqori oqimidagi barcha qoldiq toʻgʻonlarini olib tashlashga sodiqligini aytdi va yil oxirigacha ularning 40 foizini va 2029-yilgacha 90 foizini yoʻq qilishni kutayotganini aytdi.
Full decommissioning, however, won't be reached before 2035, it said in a bayonot mahalliy OAV tomonidan keltirildi.
The iron ore producer o'tgan oy aytgan edi it plans to spend about 9 billion reais (1.65 billion) this year on reparations related to the Brumadinho dam burst.
Uch yil, deyarli 4 milliard keyin
2019 yildan beri kompaniya ijtimoiy va atrof-muhitga etkazilgan zararni qoplash va kompensatsiya qilish uchun taxminan 18 milliard real (taxminan 3,6 milliard) sarflaganini aytdi.
Bundan tashqari, 12,{1}}ga yaqin kishi Vale bilan fuqarolik va mehnat kompensatsiyasi shartnomalarini tuzdi, natijada 2,6 milliard realdan ortiq to‘lov amalga oshirildi.
Last year, the mining company signed a full reparation agreement with the government of Minas Gerais, the state and federal public prosecutors and the public defender's office that governs ongoing actions, and which ended collective legal actions. The individual agreements, on the other hand, are being carried out separately.
In January 2020, state prosecutors Fabio Shvartsmanni aybladi, konchining sobiq bosh direktori va to'g'ondagi falokat uchun qotillik bilan boshqa 15 kishi. Keyinchalik sud ishni shtat sudida emas, balki federal sud orqali ko'rib chiqishga qaror qildi.
There are other upstream dams in the state owned by companies like CSN, Gerdau and ArcelorMittal, according to records of the National Mining Agency (ANM) and the Minas Gerais government.
This type of tailings has long been banned in earthquake-prone mining countries such as Chile and Peru because they are susceptible to damage and cracks. This makes them nearly ikki barobar beqaror as the average mining waste facility, tadqiqotlar ko‘rsatdi.
While Brazil is not as earthquake-prone a nation as its western neighbours, it's been shown that even small seismic activity can affect tailings dams such as the one near Brumadinho.
(Reuters fayllari bilan)