BHP has been found legally liable for the 2015 Mariana dam collapse, one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of Brazil, The Financial Times’ Alistair Gray, Leslie Hook, and Michael Pooler report. The High Court in London on Friday ruled that BHP was “strictly liable for damage caused to the environment and to third parties by the collapse of the dam.” The disaster killed 19 people and toxic sludge released from behind a tailings dam contaminated hundreds of kilometers of waterways.
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