Mine Project in Romania Launches Protest Movement

Thought I'd bring this to ATS as I'm sure there are many here who will be interested in this Story! I received this from a friend of mine via a networking site (not mentioning the name but you all know which one without me saying it). It's about a major Mining Op which is about to begin at 'Rosia Montana' in Romania for Gold! People live in the Region but are not prepared to move.

In September 1995, a secret agreement was signed inside the Romanian government giving convicted criminal Frank Timis the rights to mine Europe's largest gold deposit, located under the ancient mountain town of Rosia Montana. Soon after, the deposits were floated on the Canadian Stock Exchange, listed under Timis' firm, Gabriel Resources, a newly created mining company registered in the tax haven of Jersey, with no previous mining experience and a bank balance of close to zero.

Now, 18 years later, a near continuous rise in the price of gold has driven the value of the deposits under Rosia Montana up by 400 percent to over $20 billion, and the constant issuing of shares from Gabriel Resources has drawn in nearly a billion dollars to the project.

Yet the mine remains unopened. The company is unable to get past public opposition that has mobilized tens of thousands across the country, and a legal system that deems the project unlawful on three counts -- under environmental law, international mining laws and the Aarhus convention for transparency in decision-making.

It goes on to say:

But all of this is set to be overridden. At the end of August, Prime Minister Victor Ponta signed a proposed law that would annul all of the legal barriers standing in the way of the Rosia Montana project and get the mine underway by the beginning of next year.

The hundred or so villagers who have refused to sell their homes in Rosia Montana would be forcefully expropriated, escorted by RMGC's private security firm and compensated at a rate set by the company.

Forced to move and can't really do much about it as the Government & RMGC will OVERIDE any Laws currently in place. Now what if I decided I wanted to build myself a house by the side of the Thames River (Imagine all the Paperwork, not to mention getting taken in and arrested for starting work on a Project without permission). As you can see, clearly about GREED and no thought for the people who live in the Rosia Mountain Region.

There's more, the people will be fighting all the way:

Three days after the law was proposed, thousands of people took to the streets in opposition. In the weeks since, the protests have grown and spread, with each successive Sunday bringing activists to the streets of cities increasingly far removed from the hills of Transylvania. The demonstrations are held in cities as far flung as Budapest, Berlin, London, Washington, Singapore. This weekend, protests are set to be larger still and, the organizers believe, they will keep growing "until something gives and our demands are recognized."

And if you miss it.... RMGC will be using 13,000 Tons of Cyanide to pump into the Mine each year which is over 130 times the amount used in the Romanian Baie Mare gold mine at the time of the catastrophic cyanide spill in 2000, Europe's worst environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl.

There is a lot more to read on the site... not sure how much I can copy and paste onto ATS. So, if you want to read more, go to:

www.spiegel.de...

I will be in and out to read your posts but I don't think it's against ATS rules to post a Topic but not reply to Posts... is it? I may just read what you guys think I may reply to some, I may not. It doesn't mean that I posted and then left being ignorant of your Posts!

I am not surprised at the greed being exposed in order to get at the gold in Rumania. I suspect we must expect any area that has gold reserves in it to be exploited because the Chinese are slowly going into Africa and when one is aware that the gold mining rights were acquired ,with the help of the British Government to I seem to remember the Rothschilds, perhaps they are probably getting a little worried about keeping their exclusive rights to themselves.

Shame something could not be worked out that could have benefitted the Rumanian people without storming over their laws and lives.

Fortunately I think we only live on a bed of coal here.

reply to post by Shiloh7


Not just about the Gold though.... it's also about that 13,000 Tons of Cyanide!

reply to post by TruthxIsxInxThexMist


Quite right about that.