Some claim the mine will harm tourism and release toxic substances, while others believe the operation is good news for Greece because it will generate new jobs and bring hundreds of millions into the struggling economy.
Local activists said they are concerned for residents' livelihoods as
the region where the Canadian miner is planning to open two new mines
largely depends on income from tourism, fishing, farming and beekeeping.
"A total of 3,000 hectares of forest has to be cleared for the
Skouries mine," Jannis Verginis of the Coordinating Committee of
Associations of Stageira-Akanthos Against Gold Mining told Deutsche Welle. "It's pristine forest – and most of it has already been cut."
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