Barrick Gold Pascua-Lama project again running after court ruling

Monday, September 30th 2013 - 22:06 UTC

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Chile's Supreme Court confirmed a freeze on Barrick Gold Corp's suspended Pascua-Lama gold mine but the Toronto-based miner escaped having the project's environmental permit revoked. The ruling dispels a significant uncertainty surrounding the controversial project, which now essentially has to complete a water management system issued by the environmental regulator to likely be re-activated. Read full article

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These asshole canucks have to learn that we are not a banana republic. There's plenty of money to be made but you must behave and follow the rules, otherwise the courts will nail your balls to the wall. There's no shortage of special interest groups that want all these projects wound back so DO THE RIGHT THING.
Sep 30th, 2013 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Good to get the ore out,
but even better to have water-tight (pun) environmental management controls.
Oct 01st, 2013 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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redp0ll
Understand that this project covers both sides of the frontier. Not much squawk from Argentina. Somebodyy getting anonimous brown envelopes to keep mum?
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