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When Brazil’s Mariana dam collapsed on 5 November 2015, Alinne Ribeiro’s husband was swept away in a cascade of mud and water.
It was an environmental catastrophe which caused untold devastation in the southeast Brazilian mountains, killing 19 people, and unleashing disastrous long-term consequences on thousands who live in the peaceful mountain villages of the Minas Gerais state.
A decade later, Anglo-British mining giant BHP awaits judgement in the UK High Court over its responsibility for the collapse, in a £36 billion claim brought by 620,000 people - in what is said to be Britain’s la
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