LONDON — Australian mining giant BHP goes on trial on Monday over one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, potentially triggering billions of dollars in compensation to be shared among hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs.
LONDON — Australian mining giant BHP goes on trial on Monday over one of Brazil 's worst environmental disasters, potentially triggering billions of dollars in compensation to be shared among hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs.The High Court in London will examine over several months whether BHP was partly liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam at a mining waste site in Brazil .
'Unpunished'The amount of damages sought in the upcoming civil trial is estimated at a total of £36 billion on behalf of more than 620,000 plaintiffs, including 46 Brazilian municipalities, companies and indigenous peoples.'We felt as if our whole world had collapsed,' Pamela Rayane Fernandes, whose 5-year-old daughter Emanuele Vitoria was killed in a mudslide, told Agence France-Presse ahead of Monday's trial.
On Trial For 2015 Brazil Mine Disaster
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