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Jul 30, 2010· David''s discusses the effects of gold mining on communities living in the mining areas, and how those experiences can be tapped to shape Ghana''s emerging oil industry.
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Jul 30, 2010· David''s discusses the effects of gold mining on communities living in the mining areas, and how those experiences can be tapped to shape Ghana''s emerging oil industry.
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By Daniel OwusuKoranteng Mrs Hann OwusuKoranteng. AN environmental buzzword, ''Water is Life'' has been used to describe how essential water is to the sustenance of life. It is also common knowledge that mining is a major contributor to water and environmental pollution. Mining operations destroy both surface and ground water.
"Ghana''s forests have almost disappeared," said Daniel OwusuKoranteng of Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM), a coalition of Ghanaian communities affected by mining. "Ghana can''t afford to build a gold mine inside one of our last remaining forest reserves."
A letter titled "REPORT ON HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS AND ACCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATIONS OF NEWMONT AFO MINE" signed by Mr Daniel OwusuKoranteng, Executive Director of Wacam, addressed ...
Apr 10, 2012· "They take the gold and leave these kinds of things," says Daniel OwusuKoranteng, executive director and cofounder of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM). Ghana, once known as the Gold Coast, is the continent''s secondbiggest producer of gold, after South Africa.
Sep 10, 2018· At the onset of the third gold rush, the mining communities were organised around traditional structures which became targets of cooptation by the mining companies. ... Daniel OwusuKoranteng .
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D. OwusuKoranteng Photo courtesy of ... WACAM leader Daniel OwusuKoranteng described how mining waste contaminated rivers and wells from which entire villages must drink. ... Open pit gold ...
In separate police moves, some 25 Chinese nationals have been arrested this year for illegal mining. "Once the gold price starts growing, that''s the motivation," said Daniel OwusuKoranteng ...
Apr 25, 2006· Worst practices should be immediate halted, especially cyanide heap leach gold mining and submarine and riverine tailings disposal. For more information. Daniel OwusuKoranteng, Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) Ghana: phone: + (only April 25 until April 27) or email:
posted on: By William Yaw Owusu Wednesday July 7, 2010 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Wassa Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM), Daniel OwusuKoranteng says the country is becoming "overwhelmed" by problems in the mining .
Oct 08, 2019· Daniel Owusu Koranteng (with microphone) addressing the media yesterday in Tema. THE MARITIME and Dockworkers'' Union (MDU) of Trade Union Congress (TUC) has expressed worry about the huge revenue losses and the resultant job losses that would hit the country''s maritime industry, if government allows Meridian Port Services (MPS) to carry out the Terminal 3 concession agreement .
Apr 07, 2017· By: Daniel OwusuKoranteng and Hann OwusuKoranteng An environmental buzzword," Water is Life" has been used to describe how essential water is to the sustenance of life.
The Executive Director of Wacam,Mr Daniel OwusuKoranteng has urged students privileged to be studying Archaeology to have a responsibility to become agents of the change in the rethinking of our development efforts for our policymakers to understand that any development effort that does not consi...
Madam OwusuKoranteng, who was speaking at a press conference, said the lack of a viable mining policy had contributed to the country''s inability to benefit from the windfall profits in the period of high gold .
mining advocacy group, has called on authorities to formulate a viable mining policy to direct the country''s mineral laws. Madam OwusuKoranteng, who was speaking at a press conference, said the lack of a viable mining policy had contributed to the country''s inability to benefit from the windfall profits in the period of high gold prices.
Tarkwa (W/R), Sept. 7, GNA Mr Daniel Owusu Koranteng, Executive Director of Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) has said the mining activities of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL) do not promote good neighbourliness.
Jan 21, 2010· "The incident brings home the fact that Ghana needs very strong laws to regulate mining operations," said WACAM''s Daniel OwusuKoranteng. WACAM says the afo gold mine, Newmont''s first mine in Ghana, has been implicated in human rights abuses and irresponsible practices since before it began operating in 2006.
Jul 30, 2010· Daniel OwusuKoranteng (1), Executive Director of WACAM timewithdavid. ... David''s discusses the effects of gold mining on communities living in the mining areas, and how those experiences can be ...
CNN International, the world''s renowned cable news channel, has profiled Daniel OwusuKoranteng, founder of mining advocacy group WACAM, describing him as "a voice for Ghana''s poor." He ...
Apr 27, 2005· Daniel OwusuKoranteng, Accra, Ghana Daniel OwusuKoranteng is Executive Director of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM), a Ghanaian communitybased nonprofit organization with a mission to protect the environment, natural resources, and the rights of marginalized communities affected by mining.
Speaking at the alternative World Economic Forum, WACAM leader Daniel OwusuKoranteng described mining waste contaminated rivers and wells from which entire villages must drink.
Accra, GNA The Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) says Newmont Ghana Gold Limited could not distance itself from the arrest .
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