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Supreme Administrative Court rejects Chelopech Mining evironmental impact assessment

Thu, Nov 12 2009 10:49 CET

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Supreme Administrative Court rejects Chelopech Mining evironmental impact assessment

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Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has rejected at first instance the environmental impact assessment (EIA) by Chelopech Mining, the local branch of Canada's Dundee Precious Metals..

The EIA  covered a planned expansion of the company's gold mining project and the construction of a processing facility in Chelopech.

The lawsuit had been filed on complaints by non-governmental organisations.

In it's ruling, the court argued there was no evidence the proposed technology was the optimal, that environmental impact assessments of all nearby areas were missing, and that too much time had passed between the preparation of the EIA report and the approval of the Environment Ministry.

Chelopech Mining announced it would appeal the court decision.

Source: Dnenvik.bg

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Anonymous tsigereda Thu, Dec 03 2009 15:46 CET
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the information you have written is good but more of nice if you define more what Is Environmental Impact Assessment means By it self


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