The inspection began this Wednesday (24) and will continue over the next few weeks
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The Public Ministry of Minas Gerais (MPMG) began, this Wednesday (24), an action that will inspect 38 upstream dams, which are in the process of being de-characterized, across the state.
The structures will be inspected by technical teams from the MP and independent audits hired.
Today, technicians went to the B2 Auxiliar dams, owned by the company Minérios Nacional, located in Rio Acima; to Sul Superior, from Vale, in Barão de Cocais; and B3/B4, also owned by Vale, located in Nova Lima.
The action is part of the Deactivating Time Bombs project, which acts preventively, helping to deactivate these remaining upstream structures. “The audits aim to assess compliance with the decharacterization stages and the agreements provided for in the Terms of Conduct Adjustment”, explains the Public Prosecutor and Environment and Mining coordinator, Lucas Marques Trindade.
The forecast is that all upstream dams in the state will be destroyed by 2035. According to the coordinator of the Operational Support Center for Environmental Justice Prosecutors (Caoma), prosecutor Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Pinto, “sometimes, these structures, especially those at emergency level 3, do not allow workers access. The work needs to be done with all the necessary caution so that decommissioning does not increase this risk. So, it’s not just closing the structure and planting on top. It is a very difficult, very technical decharacterization process that requires responsibility and seriousness. It needs to be done in the shortest possible time, with the necessary technique and caution.”
