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Ghana article...

Reuters reported yesterday that Mines Minister Cecilia Bannerman briefed the media on plans to grant five licenses to companies wanting to extend operations into areas currently off-limits. The beneficiary companies are Newmont [NEM], Ashanti [ASL] & Nevsun [NSU], Birim [BGI] & Golden Star [GSS], and Red Back [RBK].

Ghana mine operators roll their eyes at the “reserve” designations because locals have already plundered them. In that vein, the minister stated that the “Many of these [forest] reserves are reserves only on paper."

That should make exploitation permits a foregone and sensible conclusion, but environmental activists have been mobilizing to oppose the move for months.

MiningWatch Canada, an Ottawa lobbying crew that starts from the premise that miners get their way to easily, too often, published a report on Ghana in early July. Breathlessly titled ‘Canadian Mining Companies Destroy Environment and Community Resources in Ghana’, the report accuses a clutch of companies of human rights abuses, land grabs and contamination – without any evidence in support.

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