UK Trial Begins Against Mining Company BHP Over Mariana Dam Disaster

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Victims and relatives of victims of the Mariana dam disaster in Brazil, demonstrate outside the Rolls Building of the Royal Courts of Justice on October 21, 2024 in London, England. The UK's High Court is set to hear opening statements this week in a historic trial against Australian mining company BHP. The case is brought by a record 620,000 claimants seeking around £33.6bn, following the Mariana dam disaster. In November 2015, nineteen people were killed when the Fundo dam collapsed, releasing approximately 50 million cubic meters of toxic waste, and inundating the town of Bento Rodrigues, near Mariana, Brazil. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)