Comunicat Greenpeace referitor la Rosia Montana
Greenpeace together with representatives of Alburnus Maior protested this morning in front of the Slovakian office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) against the potential involvement of UNDP in Europe’s biggest gold mining project. While the demonstration was ongoing limousines arrived carrying the top management of the Canadian gold mining company Gabriel Resources together with Ms Soknan Han Jung and Mr Florin Banateanu from UNDP Romania. The meeting is about the \sustainable development plans’ for the destructive project that is considered by the Romanian Academy the Hungarian government and the European Parliament as a serious ecological threat for the whole Central European region.
The people who gathered outside the building of UNDP Slovakia asked in an open letter to the director of BCR about the nature of collaboration between UNDP-UNEP and Gabriel Resources and about the relevant reports that have not been made accessible to the public and all stakeholders except for the gold mine company itself. The letter also questions the impartiality of Philip Peck who is working for two different expert commissions and is pushing for a go-ahead of the Rosia Montana mine development in both of them.
Gabriel Resources intends to develop Europe’s largest open cast cyanide leach gold mine project in Rosia Montana (Romania). The planned investment will destroy a unique environment of great natural and cultural value foresees the use of over 13 million kilograms of cyanide per year and entails significant risks with a potential transboundary impact. The Rosia Montana gold mining project is 40 times larger than the Baia Mare gold mine which caused one of Europe’s largest ecological disaster in January 2000.
“The planned gold mine is one of the worst investment projects in the region. It will cause major destruction only to put in place an ecological “The project clearly violates European and international law including the European Convention on Human Rights. We consider it outrageous that a UN institution is even considering to support a project which would entail the expropriation of those refusing to leave and threaten the region with an ecological catastrophe” said Noemi Nemes Greenpeace Hungary.
“An organization that is based on and proud of its transparency and impartiality cannot hide behind close doors to celebrate a dangerous wedding with a gold mine company! UNDP must realize that Rosia Montana gold mine project can never be sold as a sustainable development just as cyanide is not safe to drink” said Stefania Simion legal councilor of Alburnus Maior.
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