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What Romeu Zema said about strengthen oversight and measures to prevent dam disasters

Romeu Zema

Romeu Zema

May 1, 2026

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Desconhecido: There's a question here from Júlio César, he's saying the following: in view of the collapse of the Brumadinho dam in 2019, one of the country's greatest socio-environmental disasters, and considering that you were not there and you classified the episode as a crime and took emergency measures, what changed concretely in the oversight of mining in Minas Gerais since then? And why do tragedies like this still generate distrust among the population regarding the State's capacity to prevent new disasters. Wow, the guy

Desconhecido: sent a podcast of questions, my God. This one was huge.

Everything changed. I said when the Brumadinho tragedy happened, on January 25, 2019, in my first month as governor of Minas Gerais, that I would be the last governor of Minas to face that kind of tragedy.

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Romeu Zema: We enacted the Mar de Lama Nunca Mais Law, which was approved in record time by the Assembly and since then...

Romeu Zema: Every dam that poses a risk is being decommissioned.

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Claims to have changed everything and promised to prevent new tragedies.

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