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What Romeu Zema said about strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

Romeu Zema: and also to punish the company that caused that tragedy.

Romeu Zema: And on that occasion, we imposed the largest penalty applied in Brazil up to that time, in the amount of 37 billion reais, and all of that sum has been used either to compensate the victims, those affected, or... for works to compensate the people of Minas who suffered so much.

But perhaps the greatest advance, Lorenzo, was in the change in legislation that we promoted, so that that type of tragedy never happens again in Minas Gerais.

Romeu Zema · 4:27

Romeu Zema: So, I am very satisfied.

Romeu Zema: that we are now, on January 25 — next week — completing seven years without any occurrence of anything similar.

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claims to have promoted a legal change to prevent new dam tragedies.

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