The law, according to WACAM, was also silent on cyanide spillages and
chemical pollution of water bodies .It hence emphasised the need to
incorporate the “Polluter Pays Principle” in the legal framework. The
Associate Executive Director of WACAM, Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, told
Public Agenda recently that though Ghana was endowed with a lot of
natural resources; the economic benefits of these resources were very
small.
She lamented gold mining in Ghana had been an economic suc-cess story
for multinational mining companies with minimal contribution to the
country's economy. That, she said, was due to the inadequacies in the
mining law.
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