Colombia: Plans for gold mine face strong opposition
Monday, March 7th, 2011[Translations of two articles from Colombian newspapers concerning plans by Greystar Resources of Vancouver, Canada, for an open-pit gold mine in the páramo, a large, diverse and environmentally sensitive area in the heights of the Andes consisting of lakes, wet grasslands, peat bogs and forests.]
- “Bucaramanga without cyanide” — El Tiempo photo
Protests held against Greystar plan for gold mining in Santurbán
Experts say it would affect rivers supplying metropolitan aqueduct
[Translated from El Tiempo for February 26. See original here.]
More than 15,000 people marched on Friday along the main streets of Bucaramanga to demand that the government not issue an environmental permit for a project in which the Canadian firm Greystar would attempt to exploit gold deposits in the páramo de Santurbán. (more…)