From Bloombergo:
After a rough 2015, all Paula de Souza Vieira wanted — like millions of other beach-obsessed Brazilians who flood the coast at year-end — was a good vacation.
Vieira, 23, thought she’d found the perfect spot: A palm-tree lined stretch of empty sand on the edge of a national preserve about 400 miles (640 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro. But a dam disaster in southeast Brazil that sent waves of noxious mud downstream into the Atlantic Ocean forced her to scrap her trip.
“I was really worried,” Vieira said. “Everyone who thought of going for the end of the year will have to cancel.”
……“Nobody is going to pay 2,000 reais for a holiday package to go to a place where people say the mud is,” said owner Dulce Mendonca. While the water supply hasn’t been affected, the ocean is thick and brown with sludge, she said. Fishermen aren’t allowed to fish, and people are being cautioned to stay out of the water.
I small a broadening class action.
