DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON AGAINST CYANIDE GOLD MINING IN ROSIA MONTANA 08 SEPTEMBER

About 200 people gathered on High Street Kensington near the Romanian Embassy to demonstrate against cyanide gold mining in Rosia Montana, project operated by Gabriel Resources, a Canadian company.

The gold exploitation at Rosia Montana will have multiple ecological, cultural, historical, social and political consequences. There is an impact on the local ecosystem and, to a great extent,on others, due to the use of cyanide and its proven danger and risk. Rosia Montana is the oldest documented settlement in Romania, of a huge archaeological importance for Europe. The nearby villages will be evacuated and sites of universal patrimony completely covered under a cyanide lake and 200 million tons of waste rock. This project will create more social problems rather than solving them, considering that the jobs created will only last for 20 years, after that leaving a great hole both in the Transylvanian landscape as well as in the social one.

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