1 year Mariana (Brazil) tragedy
03
Nov
A village of 600 people, which was part of the call route “Royal Route” in the seventeenth century, which had monuments and churches of cultural value, on 5 December last year was swept by 62 million cubic meters of mud, so off the map Bento Rodrigues, ten deaths and an ecological tragedy.
The wave in eleven minutes devastated Mariana seven districts, also contaminated the North Gualaxo rivers do Carmo and the Doce River, still no signs of any recovery, and whose waste has reached the Holy Spirit and the sea.
Samarco mining was little known to the local population, but was considered successful model, and associated with a joint venture of Vale do Rio Doce and Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton, was 37 years old at the site.
In 2014 the company had revenues of 7.5 billion reais, with a net profit of 2.8 billion reais, but the company’s stock and worth plummeted and soon to Andrew Mackenzie, BHP Executive land in Brazil, and the chief executive of Vale Murilo Ferreira, and his colleague Ricardo Vescovi de Aragão of enterprise Samarco, tried to erase the negative image, but without success.
There are still doubts as ecological restoration, the role that regulatory agencies of the Minas Gerais State and the Brazil Government (Dilma in this time) exercised because today appear documents with evidence of the possibility of tragedy, a document spoke including that the death toll could reach 19, eighteen, it’s amazing the accuracy of the forecast.
One year later there are still shadows on the real culprits, besides engineers Samarco and the government monitoramente also the recovery of fauna and flora, the compensation of the affected follows in slow steps.
