Federal deputy Zé Silva (Solidariedade), president of the Parliamentary Front for Sustainable Mining, will request a public hearing to debate the existence of unsafe dams in Minas Gerais. The meeting should be scheduled for the first week of May.
After an article in Jornal Estado de Minas reporting 48 structures in this situation, putting 30,000 people at risk, ANM confirmed to Itatiaia that 24 mining dams did not attest to stability in Minas Gerais, are at emergency level 1, and were or remained closed. . Several of them have been closed since 2022. The maximum emergency level is 3, which represents an imminent risk of disruption.
“Dams that do not certify stability are automatically embargoed and reclassified as high CRI, entering emergency level 1. Furthermore, these structures move up in the ANM inspection planning ranking, so that they are prioritized for inspection”, responded the agency. See the list:
1. Vale S. A – Dicão Leste
2. Buritirama Mineração SA – Dique do Grotão
3. Emicon Mineração e Terraplenagem LTDA – Barragem Queias
4. Vale S. A – 6
5. Vale S. A – 7a
6. Vale SA – B
7. Vale SA – B3/B4
8. Arcelormittal Brasil SA – Tailings Dam
9. Vale S. A – Campo Grande
10. Vale SA – Doctor
11. Vale SA – Forquilha
12. Vale SA – Forquilha II
13. Vale SA – Forquilha III
14. Vale SA – Group
15. Vale SA – Maravilhas II
16. Vale SA – North/Laranjeiras
17. Vale SA – Superior South
18. Vale SA – Vargem Grande
19. Vale SA – Xingu
20. Mineração TABOCA SA – 0-1
21. Mineração TABOCA SA – 81-1
22. Vale SA – Pontal
23. Industrias Nucleares do Brasil S. A – INB Barragem de Rejeitos
24. Mosaic Fertilizers P&K LTDA – Barragem B
Given this scenario, the deputy decided to call a public hearing to address the matter. “We took the first steps to bring together the parliamentary front and demand that the government put resources and structure into the ANM so that our pact of ‘Brumadinho and Mariana Never Again’ can be true”, he revealed. According to Zé Silva, the hearing should be held in the first week of May.
The parliamentarian defends that the inspection structure be strengthened. “There are good practices in mining, but the government, especially the federal government, needs to fulfill its role, paying or transferring the resource to ANM, the National Mining Agency, which is responsible for monitoring. It doesn’t have adequate inspectors, nor does it have modern technology, according to the need”, says the parliamentarian.
