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Sep 03, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
We, at Echo, welcome the news, as reported in the local media, of the government’s commitment to put $ 2 Billion from mining revenues for protected areas fund. This is good. However, no amount of money can compensate for the degradation and destruction of the environment, and the plunder of our natural assets. It is not sufficient to take money from activities that are destroying the natural environment and commit it to protect other parts of the environment. For the destruction of one part have implications for all other areas of the environment. How protected are those areas?
We have said that, there needs to be proper management of mining activities, in our hinterland. Crude methods of mining operations, the clearing of our forests, felling of trees and cavities left in the earth, in those areas are causing serious public health and environmental concerns not only in the interiors but even in urbancommunities.
Also, there needs to be basic standards across the-bond for mining and there need to be published and known to all miners as well as all stake holders.
Decisions on the environment must be founded on a proper sense of reasonability toward the environment and all those, who depend on it for their survival.
Today, what we are witnessing, in our hinterland, is an unprecedented push, in the mining industry, unprecedented biodiversity loss, and the pollution of soil and water supplies. We need to pay much more attention to what is happing in our hinterland and take necessary action to protectour environment and its natural resources.
Miners are contributing to deforestation in a noticeable way. We have to find an approach that would reverse this.
Royston King
Executive Director
ECHO
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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