[PRESS-RELEASE] The designer of the Mount Polley tailing management facility is Knight Piésold, the very same company that carried out site investigations for the TMF proposed for Rosia Montana and concluded that both the overburden and underlying cretaceous sediments are very impermeable and therefore precludes the need for a formal liner system in the TMF basin. The TMF facility proposed at Rosia Montana is situated 2km a-monte from Abrud, a town with 5000 inhabitants. This is the unvarnished reality of modern mining. It generates disasters that are neither justifiable nor excusable. During the design phase, mine proposals are presented as infallible. Consultants emphatically underline that they will use the latest technology, which apparently never fails. This is also the case with Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (TSX:GBU) which claims that the >. Our experience has been that once a large accident occurs mining companies declare bankruptcy. It’s the locals that are ultimately left with the damage. This is what happened in Baia Mare in 2000, said Tudor Brădăţan, a representative Mining Watch Romania network. I have followed the statements by the First Nation’s leader and the locals from Likely who are trying to understand what is happening. Catastrophes such as this one are painful, but the most difficult aspects are the consequences for the locals. During these difficult moments my thoughts are with those living in the region affected by the accident,” said Eugen David, president of Alburnus Maior. #solidarity #britishcolumbia
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