Serbia: Zijin Mining ordered to halt work after failure to comply with environmental standards
要約
Date Reported: 2021年4月14日
場所: セルビア
企業
Zijin Mining - Parent Companyプロジェクト
Bor Copper Mines - Unknown関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported ) , コミュニティ: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported )課題
Water pollution , Violation of environmental safety standards , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment回答
Response sought: いいえ
情報源のタイプ: Regulatory action
"Serbia halts China-owned mine over environmental breaches," 14 April 2021
Serbia has ordered China’s Zijin Mining Group to halt work at a shaft at the country’s only copper mine and to complete a waste water treatment plant after it failed to comply with environmental standards, the mining and energy minister said...
Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said authorities in late March ordered Zijin’s Serbia-based unit to halt work on its Jama copper mining shaft.
“The state has ... responded to the complaints of citizens living in the vicinity of the Jama mine,” Mihajlovic said in a statement.
In a statement later on Wednesday, Zijin’s unit in Serbia said it had halted construction of ventilation shafts for the Jama mine located in the town of Bor, as ordered by authorities, after residents complained about noise levels...
Mihajlovic said the Zijin unit had also been ordered to urgently complete a waste water treatment plant and stop polluting the River Pek, a tributary of the Danube...