{"id":133808,"date":"2025-11-15T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=133808"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:09:53","slug":"uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"UK judge finds BHP Group liable in Brazil\u2019s worst environmental disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-container\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that global mining giant BHP Group is liable in Brazil\u2019s worst environmental disaster, in a lawsuit the claimants\u2019 lawyers previously valued at up to 36 billion pounds ($48bn).<\/p>\n<p>High Court Justice Finola O\u2019Farrell said on Friday that Australia-based BHP was responsible despite not owning the dam at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/14\/uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Aljazeera<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that global mining giant BHP Group is liable in Brazil\u2019s worst environmental disaster, in a lawsuit the claimants\u2019 lawyers previously valued &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":133811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1737,58,55,48,5,45],"tags":[1003,616,1302,323,877],"class_list":["post-133808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-society","category-environment","category-government","category-industry","category-latin-america","category-news","category-uk-ireland","tag-brazil","tag-environmental-justice","tag-litigation","tag-mining","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}