Re: backers of omai gold mine have history of disaster
Larry Innes (es051322@orion.yorku.ca)
Tue, 3 Oct 1995 17:09:39 -0300
> Golden Star Resources was controlled by the man who ran the
> Summitville gold mine in Colorado, site of the most expensive
> environmental disaster in U.S. history. Cambior bought up a
> mining company that ran a South Carolina gold mine which was
> the site of the biggest-ever cyanide spill prior to the Omai
> disaster.
>
> These two companies also control major mining operations in
> Burma, French Guiana, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Suriname and
> Venezuela.
>
> The man who helped raise the money to create Golden Star
> Resources was Robert Friedland, a U.S. native who has taken
> Canadian citizenship. Friedland once owned a company called
> Galactic Resources that operated the Summitville mine in the
> San Juan mountains of Colorado...
An interesting footnote to this story is that Robert Friedland is also the
co-chair and principle investor in Diamond Fields, the company that is
proposing to develop a multi-billion dollar nickel-copper-cobalt mine on
unceded Innu and Inuit land in Labrador.
See the "Voisey Bay (Eimish) Update" posted to Native-l yesterday for details.
Larry Innes es051322@orion.yorku.ca (direct to me)
Environmental Advisor innu@web.apc.org (general to Innu Nation)
Innu Nation
P.O. Box 119
Sheshatshiu, Nitassinan (Labrador) Phone: (709) 497-8398
via Canada A0P 1M0 Fax: (709) 497-8396
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