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BHP Billiton and Vale face civil lawsuit of US$ 3.69bn over dam collapse in Brazil

Friday, November 20th 2015 - 10:16 UTC
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A BHP Billiton and Vale joint venture in Brazil is facing its first civil lawsuit over the dam collapse at its iron ore mine on November 5 that buried a town and contaminated the region's main river. Read full article

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  • Briton

    Shoddy materials or corruption perhaps.

    Nov 20th, 2015 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    You're getting boring, Briton. Stop it, I know that you are a Gentleman.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEmFzGSkBWU&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=5

    Nov 20th, 2015 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #2
    As usual, on cue, a video that has nothing to do with the subject.

    Instead, it shows how the Swedes had to teach the Brasilians how to manufacture a Hi-Tec aircraft !

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Did not you like it?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRBQjBuQmo&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=17

    @1 Briton, about the English financing to Petrobras what I said was a joke. Is not true.

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    Brarsehole = Nostril = aedi - phsyco moron. Uniligual, mentally challenged, racialist. No opinions of her own, inability to rationalise anything at all. And… a total fake.,

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    How much airframe life has that taken off the Battle of Britain memorial flight's Lancaster?

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    A horse and its rider walked into a bar and said two pints please barman,,,

    Sorry said the barman, we don’t serve riders in here,

    The horse then looked at his rider and said
    Sorry mate, you will have to wait outside….

    jokes,,,,lol.

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @4 BRasshole (terrorist sympathizer with shit for brains)

    that's right ! Now that you discover you were shitting out of your mouth when you denied that the UK would finance PB, you tell us you were joking........LOL, no way, it was pure ignorance....what else ??

    Nov 21st, 2015 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    The US should have liquidated British Petroleum and used the proceeds to partially compensate the Gulf for that company's trashing of the environment and the economy. The Brazilian administration should likewise liquidate BHP and use the proceeds as partial compensation.

    Nov 25th, 2015 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #9

    In the same way that Union Carbide paid compensation ?
    An American company. I believe that the victims got $2000 each for being poisoned.
    As usual with you if there is anything to do with Britain...even a name, then you in blind prejudice try to make a biased case against it.
    This Gulf spillage has ended up as a gravy train for chancers who see a fast buck. Retailers a hundred of miles away are claiming for “lost business”

    Nov 25th, 2015 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @9 Hippy
    Your reputation for crapping out of your mouth precedes you. BHP Billiton, as a company, does not exist in Brazil. What does exist is Samarco - a Brazilian company, with 50% of its shares belonging to another Brazilian company . If anything is to be liquidated it will be Samarco. With the loss of thousands of jobs. Brazilian jobs.
    As to trashing the economy, Dilma and her cohorts have alreay taken care of trashing Brazil's, so not much to be done there.
    One thing your small brain doesn't realize, is that whether for good or for bad, Samarco's activities and manner of conducting their business, with regards to the dams meant to hold the mineral residues, was (at least was supposed to be ) monitored by Brazilian Regulatory agencies.....not by BHP, nor Vale do Rio Doce. But it's always much easier to blame someone else, isn't it, you birdbrain ? (no offence to birds !)

    Nov 25th, 2015 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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