Tag: Bauxite Mining
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GIADEC inaugurates committees in 4 bauxite mining communities to ensure smooth operations
As part of efforts to ensure community buy-in and support for the activities of the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) in its operational areas, the governing Board and Management of GIADEC has set up and inaugurated 4 separate 19-member committees for the various communities where bauxite mining and refining will be taking place. They…
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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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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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Ashanti groups take on GIADEC over bauxite mining in Nyinahin Forest Reserve
Some groups in the Ashanti Region are threatening to stop the mining of bauxite in the Nyinahin Forest Reserve over what they call lack of transparency by the Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) in its dealings with the host communities. The groups are also calling for the immediate dissolution of the GIADEC Board due…
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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 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…