Vale also highlights its support for an extensive monitoring operation in the forest run by the Brazilian Government's conservation agency ICMBio - so we checked with the agency to get their perspective.
While they obviously assume the facts of the case will be damaging enough, they are also loath to be seen as piling on -- particularly when the president is close to ordering an extensive military operation in Iraq.
According to the MoD, the site would need extensive refurbishment if it was to remain in operation and it has identified "greater efficiency" in relocating.
This plummeted over 80% when the dam began operation, and a decade later, through extensive government investment to restock the river, the species number is still less than half the original amount.
Prosecutors in Cremona have detailed an extensive match-fixing ring stretching as far as Singapore and South America that was allegedly in operation for more than 10 years.
Hundreds of files discovered after his departure revealed Paraguay's extensive role in the repression of left-wing activists across southern Latin America in what was known as Operation Condor.