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The Anglo-Australian minor BHP Billiton has agreed to provide additional financial badistance of US $ 515 million (about A $ 1.9 billion) to the Renova Foundation and Samarco, the company said in a statement. published on Monday. (21).
The Renova Foundation was established for the purpose of repairing after the collapse of one of the Samarco mining company's tailings dams – a BHP joint venture with Vale – in November 2015 in Mariana (MG ).
Of the amount indicated, BHP clarified that $ 438 million would be paid to fund the Renova Foundation by December 31 of this year and that $ 77 million would be made available to Samarco 's. here June.
Regarded as the biggest socio-environmental catastrophe in Brazil, the dam's rupture left 19 dead, hundreds of displaced people and polluted the Doce River, which crosses several cities until reaching the Sea of the Holy -Mind.
Three years ago, the Samarco Dam broke out and caused the explosion. one of the environmental disasters of history – Photo: Fred Loureiro / Secom-ES
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