He doesn’t want an Australian mining company to extract the metal.
“What will happen with the water? To separate the
gold and silver, they’ll use cyanide. This will either filter into the
water table or go into the river,” said Pineda, a stocky agronomist and
environmental activist.
Those who share Pineda’s views don’t care if El
Salvador remains the proverbial beggar seated on a bench of gold. They
say their densely populated nation cannot absorb environmental distress
from mining.
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