Since the government has never had an interior policy or a land use policy deriving therefrom, added to which the legislative framework is unclear, it is placed in the position of dealing with every issue which comes up on an ad hoc basis. It is not that everyone does not have a legitimate claim at some level or another, it is just that those claims are in a very general sense incompatible. There could be mitigation of some of the mining issues if the government were prepared to invest in research on mercury alternatives – whether the mining sector likes it or not, there will be international moves in one form or another which will necessitate the phasing out of mercury – as well as in gold recovery rates as suggested by former GGMC Commissioner William Woolford. A lot of work on these must have been done already elsewhere, one would have thought.
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/opinion/editorial/08/19/amerindians-and-mining/
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