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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Cyanide scare causes 1000s to protest fracking, gold mine

In Bucharest, between 4 000, according to the police, and 7 000 people according to organisers, walked between the central University Square and the government building, shouting slogans against a gold mine project planned by Canadian company Gabriel resources in the village of Rosia Montana, in the heart of Transylvania.

The open-cast mine would be the biggest in Europe, according to the company.

The project has triggered fierce opposition as the mine would use an average of 12 000 tons of cyanide a year in a leaching process and threaten to partially damage Roman mining galleries
 http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Cyanide-scare-causes-1000s-to-protest-fracking-gold-mine-20130901

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