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According to the Brazilian Senate’s website, some 200,000 people in Maceio were affected by the company’s mining activities.

Troubles in Maceio began a year earlier, when large cracks first appeared on the surface.

Around 200,000 people in the Alagoas state’s capital of Maceio were affected by the excessive extraction of rock salt, according to the Brazil Senate’s website.

In recent years, several Maceio communities became ghost towns as residents accepted Braskem’s payouts to relocate.

The settlement — about 1.7 billion Brazilian reais — between Braskem and Maceio will be used for structural works in the city and for a residents’ support fund, the municipality said in a statement.