Category Archives: Lindsay Newland Bowker

BRUMADINHO HOVERED IN CONTINUAL STATE OF FRAGILITY THROUGHOUT ITS LIFE: EXPERT PANEL REPORT

Posted on December 13, 2019 by lindsaynewlandbowker

CONTACT: Lindsay Newland Bowker compiler@worldminetailingsfailures.org A real page turner!!! The expert panel technical cause of failure report commissioned by Vale was released yesterday (December 12, 2019). This is a very  distinguished  panel but as with all such commissioned  works it … Continue reading →

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BRAZIL A RUNAWAWY TRAIN INCAPABLE OF DE RISKING ITS AT RISK TAILINGS FACILITIES

Posted on March 17, 2019 by lindsaynewlandbowker

 DATE: March 17,2019  (revised 4/3/2019) CONTACT:LNBOWKER@BOWKERASSOCIATES.ORG   I have no faith that anyone in Brazil has the technical competence to  assess the stability of the 17 identified large at risk dams  let alone figure out how to safely de risk … Continue reading →

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RESPONSIBLE MINING INDEX 2018 A DISAPPOINTING REPORT CARD FOR THE WORLD’S TOP 30 MINERS

Posted on May 8, 2018 by lindsaynewlandbowker

The Responsible Mining Foundation has just released its Responsible Mining Index 2018  after two years in development with extensive informed rounds of multi stakeholder comment. Rating the 30 largest mining companies worldwide responsible for 700 mining operations and undertaking a … Continue reading →

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CADIA TAILINGS FAILURE: THE BEST REGULATORY REGIME IN THE WORLD & RESPONSIBLE PRACTICE CANNOT GUARANTEE ZERO FAILURE

Posted on March 14, 2018 by lindsaynewlandbowker

March 14, 2018 Stonington, Maine contact:  Lindsay Newland Bowker , Compiler@WorldMineTailingsFailures.org Lindsay Newland Bowker LNBowker@BowkerAssociates.org Bowker Associates has not been able to piece together much of the history leading up to this failure nor much about the details of the … Continue reading →

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Path To Zero Failures “NET PLUS” Benefits In Mining Lies In Radical Reform of RESOURCE GOVERNANCE

Posted on November 20, 2017 by lindsaynewlandbowker

The Following was addressed to Luke Fletcher, Executive Director of Jubilee Australia whose economics centered systematic approach to advocacy has always been exemplary and worthy of emulation.  Glad to provide email contacts for those interested in following up with the … Continue reading →

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Building Codes & Building Boards BEST MODEL For Regulatory Reform In Tailings Management

Posted on November 8, 2017 by lindsaynewlandbowker

There are companies, consultants and regulators around the world that have a high level of commitment to tailings dam safety and have developed practices which have been instrumental in ensuring the safe operation of tailings dams by many companies in … Continue reading →

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MT POLLEY BEYOND PROXIMATE CAUSE OF FAILURE: Pre Failure Economics

Posted on February 1, 2017 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Beyond “proximate cause”, the focus of most dam committee reports,  are the root economic causes of most catastrophic failures.  Imperial Metals had two principle mines, Huckleberry and Mt Polley that never achieved profitability and were developed and run on “shoe string” … Continue reading →

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ALL OF BRAZILS 144 LARGE TAILINGS DAMS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AT RISK OF FAILURE AND INDEPENDENTLY RE EVALUATED BY A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT MULTI DISCIPLINARY PANEL OF EXPERTS

Posted on October 17, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

CONTACT: Lindsay Newland Bowker 207 367 5145/lindsaynewlandbowker@gmail.com DATE: October 1, 2016         According this 2014 report by the Brazilian Government, Brazil has 633 tailings dams, the overwhelming majority built after enactment of the   2010 statutory overhaul. 144 are large enough … Continue reading →

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Share Holder Litigation Puts Spotlight On Environmental Risk

Posted on July 13, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Madison Condon, JD, Fellow Earth Institute, Columbia University NY, NY   Dear Ms.  Condon:   Thank you for your stunning and seminal work accurately drawing the arc between massive investor losses and poorly developed mining projects  which manifest also in … Continue reading →

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Mining Financial Risks Post-“Super Cycle” Point to Escalated & Unexamined Already Accrued Public Liabilities & Environmental Security Losses

Posted on February 19, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Although this Ernst & Young report on “post super cycle” mining business risks speaks from the miners point of view, not from the environmental risk/public liability point of view, the economic realities presented here are what Bowker Chambers (2015) was pointing at … Continue reading →

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