Guyana should be gearing for a ‘green economy’

The mining sector is now larger than ever. Its sudden expansion, however, spawned a new ‘entrepreneurial’ class of persons with little mining experience and foreigners, some here illegally, with little concern for the country’s long-term development. Many new operators brought earth-moving equipment and introduced techniques which resulted in increased deforestation, riverine pollution and environmental damage. Many new miners seemed unaware of, or unconcerned about, mining legislation and regulation.
Mining districts – especially in the Barima-Waini, Cuyuni-Mazaruni and Potarao-Siparuni Regions –have been scarred by barren, treeless landscapes; mined-out tracts; discoloured, silt-laden creeks; eroded river banks; toxic pools of stagnant water and debris of used tyres, torn tentage and broken equipment.
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