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Article

6 Dec 2002

Author:
Adrian Dascalu, Reuters

Greenpeace slams Canadian gold project in Romania

Greenpeace urged Romania this week to pull the plug on a controversial Canadian gold mining project in the Carpathians which it said would seriously damage the environment...As part of the project, it [Gabriel Resources, a Canadian company] plans to relocate the 900 families of Rosia Montana, a poor mining town 500 km (310 miles) west of Bucharest, and has promised them money and new homes.