It is to the eternal credit of President Mahama that when he became
Ghana's leader, he decided to act decisively, to end the destruction of
the natural environment in vast swathes of the Ghanaian countryside,
resulting from the activities of illegal gold miners across Ghana.
The poisoning of soils, rivers and the contamination of underground
water reservoirs with cyanide and mercury, poses a long-term risk to
public health.
For that reason, the inter-ministerial task force formed to halt the
activities of illegal gold miners, ought to consider how the
soil-decontaminating properties of biochar and vertiver grass could be
harnessed to repair some of the widespread environmental degradation
caused by illegal gold miners
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