How VW Emissions Scandal Hurt Other German Car Makers’ Reputations and Profits August 7, 2019 The fallout from Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions scandal cost other German car makers billions of dollars in sales, according to new...
Mining Firm Vale Must Fix All Damages from Deadly Dam Collapse: Brazil Court July 10, 2019 A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday convicted mining company Vale SA for damages caused by the deadly rupture of a...
British Hacker Gets 4 Years in Jail for TalkTalk Data Breach June 12, 2019 By Jonathan Browning A British man who hacked TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc, blackmailed executives and offered to supply customer data has been jailed...
Global Mining Firms Reveal Safety Plans for Tailings Dams After Deadly Brazil Disasters June 10, 2019 By Shriya Ramakrishnan and Sangameswaran S. Global miners BHP Group, Anglo American Plc and Glencore Plc revealed details on tailings dams, months after ethical investors sought...
Vale’s Gongo Soco Mine Tailings Dam Faces 10%-15% Risk of Collapse: Brazil Official May 21, 2019 Brazilian miner Vale‘s tailings dam in the town of Barao de Cocais in Minas Gerais has up to a 15%...
UK Risk Managers List Brand Damage, Brexit, Cyber Attacks as Top 3 Business Risks May 20, 2019 The top three risks facing UK risk managers are reputational damage, Brexit and cyber attacks, according to Aon’s 2019 Global...
Brazil’s Vale Warns Another Mine Tailings Dam at Risk of Collapse May 17, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA told prosecutors in the state of Minas Gerais that a dam is at risk...
Brazil’s Vale to Invest $2.5B in Technology to Prevent Mining Dam Disasters: Reuters May 10, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazil’s Vale said on Thursday that it plans to invest $2.5 billion over the next five years in technology that...
Mining Giant BHP Faces $5B Damages Claim over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster May 8, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5.0 billion damages claim in England for being “woefully negligent” in the...
Brazil Mining Giant Vale Warns Another Tailings Dam Could Collapse March 25, 2019 By Diane Jeantet Brazilian mining giant Vale said Saturday [March 23] that communities in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais have been ordered...