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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9270
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment/romania

Hungarian MEP and NGOs mobilised against new mining project in Romania that is more threatening to the environment than Baia Mare - call for vigilance from EU

Brussels, 21/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following the mining accident of Baia Mare, responsible in 2000 for cyanide pollution in the Danube, a similar new gold extraction project in Romania is being developed, but on a much greater scale, and which is making Gyula Hegyi (PES, Hungary) tremble, as well as Parliament's environment committee, and environmental protection NGOs, civil society in Romania and neighbouring countries, which are all anxious to alert European public opinion. The cause:...

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