The U.K.-based plaintiffs firm Pogust Goodhead has won the right to argue a case in the Netherlands against Brazilian petrochemicals firm Braskem on behalf of communities allegedly destroyed by salt mine operations in northern Brazil.
The claimants allege the Brazilian firm was responsible for creating earth tremors over the course of more than four decades that resulted in the collapse of their homes and the abandonment of their neighborhoods in the municipality of Maceió, in the state of Alagoas.
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