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Minister Korodi: Rosia Montana investor must come up with industrial waste management plan
The Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC) will have to come up with an industrial waste management plan, and the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry will have 60 days to look into the document at a meeting of the technical assessment board, Environmental Minister Attila Korodi told a news conference on Wednesday.
'The conversation with the company is over now on most of the technical issues for Rosia Montana. The company that wants to develop gold mining there has provided the information and replies to the questions asked. Currently, we are conducting a procedure in relation to the implementation of a new waste management directive, and the company will now have to come up with a management plan for industrial waste. So far as I know, the plan will be submitted and our experts on the technical assessment board told us that they need 60 days to discuss the plan, in which time the institutions involved will have to make comments and agree on such a plan,' said Korodi.
He added that another issue that has to be solved at the Government level, is deviating the Corna stream that is currently crossing the area where the RMGC intends to build a tailing pond.
'On the other hand, there is still the unsolved problem related to the stream that is currently crossing a location where the mining company intends to build a tailings pond. The action has to be approved under a decision of the Government. Each institution represented on the technical assessment board will have to come up with their own official opinions, which will be included in the authorisation document that may be in favour or against when all the data are collected. There are certainly some elements incumbent on other institutions, for example archaeological issues, that have to be settled before the assessment procedure is concluded,' said Korodi.