BHP liable for 2015 Brazil dam collapse, UK court rules

BHP can be held liable over the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London’s High Court has ruled, in a lawsuit the claimants’ lawyers previously valued at up to $48.32 billion.Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, dozens of local governments and around 2000 businesses sued BHP over the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana, southeastern Brazil, which was owned and operated by BHP and Vale’s Samarco joint venture.Brazil’s worst environmental disaster unleashed a wave of toxic sludge that killed 19 ...