It is a mining and metals company with exploration, mining, smelting and manufacturing operations around the world. It is just a matter of time before there is another more serious accident involving mining waste. European water policy officer. Company officials are claiming ignorance as to why the dam wall at Aitik collapsed and are encouraging the public not to make connections with the catastrophic accident in Spain. The accident in Sweden shows that too many mining waste dams, east and west, are not properly built or maintained.
New legislation is needed before another disaster strikes.
Environmental organizations are demanding that the European Commission, the bureaucracy that runs the European Union, create tighter legislation to prevent further accidents.