"Eldorado has been trying for a very long time to conceal from the Canadian public and its own investors that fact that there is huge resistance to its operations in Greece. When demonstrations got so big that they could no longer deny it any more ... they have been saying the people protesting are anarchists, radical leftists, that we are flying in protesters from other parts of Greece; this is totally false. This is a genuine local resistance movement."
But with Eldorado buying up much of the mining sector in a region of 16 small villages -- Ierissos being the largest with only 4,000 people -- and boasting about its impending $1.32 billion projects in the area, the battle over water pollution, deforestation and the area's tourism- and agriculture-based economy is certain to escalate, activists say.
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