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Short term gains with long term pains
Dear Editor,
The LCD plan is indeed commendable. I am a great supporter of protecting the rainforest and our natural environment.
However, I am surprised that no mention is being made of those huge foreign timber companies that continue to plunder the forests, how will we pursue LCDS and have these companies slaughtering the trees.
I also saw ROMANEX the Canadian gold mining company is set to start their operations soon? Haven’t we learnt from the Omai case? Apart from the destruction to the forest, which they claim is minimal, have we examined the other side effects?
Of course they have done an EIA, which will show low impacts to the environment. We should ask who did the study, how objective it is and is there the technical capacity to asses it?
Omai’s EIA was also sound, there was the cyanide spill. In Canada they would have never been able to get away with that as they did in Guyana.
Yet after million of ounces of gold we are constantly told that they did not make a profit, yet they want to come again. Come on Guyana are you that naïve as Norman thinks you are?
Yes gold prices were not where they are now but so to were all the other expenses.
The Amerindians need to rise up and object to ROMANEX by all means, there will be short term gains with long term pains. Use your arrows and bows if you have too, but object.
P. Swamy
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