Accusations of ecological malfeasance have plagued the project since 1998, when a truck carrying nearly two tonnes of sodium cyanide for industrial purposes (it used for separating gold from ore) fell into a river on the road to Kumtor. The volume of water fairly rapidly diluted even so large an amount of cyanide as to avoid threat to human life, but the fish kill was immense and collateral environmental damage was nontrivial..........
The commission also investigated alleged violations of law and, while the company says it follows all necessary national and international standards, commission chairman Sabyr Japarov called the situation an "impending ecological catastrophe", as quoted by Reuters news agency. Expert testimony at his hearings was not allowed to continue after it contradicted his declaration.
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