ROMANIANS PROTEST CANADIAN MINING PROJECT. Some 200 people staged a
vigil protest in front of the Romanian patriarchy in the night of 7-8
November against a Canadian open-air mining project in the Rosia
Montana region of Transylvania, saying the project will "cause a
disaster," AFP reported. The protesters, most of whom were local
villagers, read from the Bible by candlelight. They were joined by 30
Greenpeace activists from abroad. The $450 million project of the
Canadian firm Gabriel Resources calls for extracting 300 tons of gold
and 1,700 tons of silver from a 20-square-kilometer area. Opponents
of the project -- among them a government-assigned commission of
experts of the Romanian Academy -- say the project would cause
desertification and destroy Roman archeological sites and three
18th-century churches. The synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church
announced on 8 November that it will discuss the project's potential
impact during a meeting later this week, Romanian Radio reported. MS
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