{"id":24765,"date":"2023-04-26T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/exclusive-prosecutors-in-brazil-state\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:18:43","slug":"exclusive-prosecutors-in-brazil-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/exclusive-prosecutors-in-brazil-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-Prosecutors in Brazil state sue AngloGold Ashanti over dam safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Marta Nogueira<\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) &#8211;     Public prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais have filed a lawsuit against AngloGold Ashanti seeking 50 million reais ($9.91 million) in damages after the gold mining company allegedly withheld expert advice from authorities indicating a lack of stability in one of its dams, according to a document seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also asks for several additional safety measures and says that &#8220;twice in 2022 the defendant had robust technical studies, prepared by specialized consultants hired by the company, which indicated the absence of stability in the dam&#8221; in Nova Lima and that it chose not to publish them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(AngloGold Ashanti) simply concealed the fact that they existed and, after trying to convince the consulting firm to change its mind about the dam&#8217;s stability, it decided to change the team in charge of the service,&#8221; the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>In a request for comment, AngloGold Ashanti said it has not discharged wastewater or effluents into the Queiroz dams since December 2022 and that production at the unit&#8217;s plants has been halted since then, but did not detail the reasons for stopping the discharge of wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 5.0462 reais)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Marta Nogueira; Writing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/exclusive-prosecutors-in-brazil-state\/small-toy-figure-and-gold-imitation-are-seen-in-front-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0SD-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0SD-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) &#8211; Public prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais have filed a lawsuit against AngloGold Ashanti seeking 50 million reais ($9.91 million) in damages after the gold mining company allegedly withheld expert advice from authorities indicating a lack of stability in one of its dams, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-24765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3P0SD-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24767,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions\/24767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}