Tag: Atewa Forest
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GIADEC will ensure maximum gains from bauxite mining – Ghana’s Amb. to China assures
Ghana’s Ambassador to China, Edward Boateng, has assured that due process is being followed by the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation, GIADEC, to ensure that Ghana benefits adequately from the expected bauxite mining. Government’s plan to mine bauxite in the Atewa Forest Reserve as part of the controversial US$2 billion Sinohydro deal with China, has…
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Bauxite mining: Gov’t to settle on key investors by close of 2020
The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), will by close of this year, enter into joint venture partnership with investors for the mining of the country’s bauxite reserves, President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed. Speaking at the 2020 State of the Nation Address in Parliament, the President said the move is part of government’s plans to…
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Coalition of NGOs refutes GIADEC’s claims on safe bauxite mining in Atewa Forest
The Coalition of NGOs Against MINING ATEWA (CONAMA) is demanding that the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), stops misinforming the Ghanaian Public on the bauxite development agenda. GIADEC in a recent media engagement on the latest developments in the sector, said the environment and especially river bodies which take their source from the Atewa…
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Bauxite mining in Atewa Forest won’t affect three key river bodies — GIADEC
The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation is assuaging fears that the country’s quest to mine the bauxite reserves in the Atewa Forest will lead to the destruction of three of the country’s water bodies which take their sources from the reserve. The three rivers, Birim, Densu and Ayensu provide the source of drinking water for more than…
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Bauxite mining in Atewa forest won’t harm environment – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given assurances that the government’s plan to have bauxite mined in the country’s largest surviving natural rainforest, the Atewa forest, will not in any way destroy the environment. He believes that the technology to be adopted by the miners would reduce the impact of the mining activity on the quality of life…