Brazil, Brumadinho dam collapse

[weltweit]

Hope fades for Brazil dam survivors

Pretty grisly, they don't expect now to find many more survivors. And this is not the first instance of a Brazilian mining dam breaking and swamping areas downstream with loss of life.

 

[CRI]

 

[Pickman's model]

In the new Brazil this sort of thing will become more common

 

[zahir]

Hundreds feared dead as Brazil dam collapse releases mud tide

Most of the victims of the disaster were Vale employees or subcontractors, around 100 of whom were having lunch in a canteen on the mine complex when the torrent of mud swept over them. A busload of workers was also killed, it was reported.

Maicon Vitor, 22, an electro-mechanic technician, told O Globo newspaper that he had just left the canteen when he heard the roar of the tailings dam breaking. “It came down dragging workshops, offices; the whole canteen which was in front of me went,” he said.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, an official at the state environment agency asked why the company had built a canteen at the foot of the dam. “How can you approve a dam like this with the guy building an administrative centre with canteen at the foot of the tailings dam?”

 

[Graymalkin]

The tailings pond had been in use for over 40 years! Most likely a clay lined pool to prevent leaching. I don't want to think about the amount of heavy metals that must have been released!

 

[SpookyFrank]

In the new Brazil this sort of thing will become more common

Look at the background to the Genoa bridge collapse and you see why fascism-flavoured free marketeers like Salvini and Bolsonaro are not good at taking care of infrastructure.