BRUSSELS PLAN FOR MINING WASTE
May 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLNew EU-wide rules to regulate waste from extractive industries like mining and quarrying have been proposed by the European Commission in a move to prevent the pollution of water and soil arising out of the long-term storage of waste in tailings ponds, waste heaps, lakes and rivers.Introducing the directive, EU environment commissioner Margot Wallström said it would help prevent serious accidents resulting from the mismanagement of mining waste, like the disaster in Baia Mare in 2000, where the whole of the Danube was polluted with cyanide, and ...
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