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ROSIA MONTANA IN ROMANIA: AGAIN UNDER THREAT
jan 18
Despite the positive 2007 Court ruling in favour of protecting the unique archaeological remains of the Roman and pre-Roman mine galleries and the entire Carnic massif of Rosa Montana, this important cultural landscape site in N-W Romania is under grave threat of being destroyed in the name of development. At the cost of removing all remains of this important heritage site for short tem benefit, the huge Canadian mining conglomerate Gabriel Resources, wishes to turn the area into an open-pit gold mine which would also bring with it grave environmental risks from the massive amounts of cyanide emissions and run-off necessary for gold mining. The local heritage community and EN are taking action to protect Rosa Montana and to forcibly argue that developing the area for cultural tourism would bring better sustainable long term economic benefit.
