The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has slapped gold mining firm Ausjam with a lawsuit to recover $5.4 million the agency said it spent cleaning up after a cyanide spill at an abandoned goldmining site in Clarendon nearly two years ago and which it said was left unmanned by Ausjam.
NEPA's Executive Director Peter Knight told the Jamaica Observer last Monday that the environmental agency had revoked Ausjam's environmental licence and was now suing the company to recover most of the US$75,000 (approximately J$7.5 million) it spent on the clean-up operations
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