Cyanide mining can enhance cross-border governance Last night thousands of people hit the streets of Bucharest in a rally against the decision of the Romanian government to allow the start of a long debated mining project that aims to use cyanide for the extraction of gold and silver. More details here: reuters/article/2013/09/01/us-romania-goldmine-idUSBRE9800FU20130901. Defining for the ways in which the actual left-liberal government understands to rule the country is the following phrase: “Prime Minister Victor Ponta strongly opposed the project before he took power in May last year yet voted for the draft law enabling the mine, only to tell a local television station that he would vote against the project in parliament”. In these circumstances, the Romanian civil society opposing this controversial project might be forced to look for help outside the Romanian borders. More exactly, the Hungarian government is strongly opposing the intentions of Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RGCM, part of the Canada’s Gabriel Resources Ltd), by putting forward the huge environmental risks of such a project. Many of the rivers from the Rosia Montana region flow directly into the Tisa river which, at its turn, flows into the Danube. In this way, cyanide mining becomes a problem of cross-border governance as it can affect people living on both sides of the border.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:09:49 +0000
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