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Experts call for independent body to oversee new standard to prevent dam collapses at mines – The Guardian
The benchmark has been introduced following the Brumadinho mine disaster in Brazil that killed 270 people in 2019
The chairman of the group behind a new standard designed to reduce the chance of deadly dam collapses on mine sites says an independent body should oversee the benchmark, rather than industry as mining companies would prefer.
Bruno Oberle, an environment professor at LEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, agreed to chair an international review of tailings dams in April 2019 that was set up after a dam at the Córrego do Feijao mine in Brumadinho, Brazil killed 270 people.
That disaster fol…
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