INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS STRUGGLE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON BALKANS MINING POLLUTION
November 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the most perfidious environmental legacies of communism in eastern Europe was that of mining pollution. In particular, across a swathe of the Balkans, from Albania to Bosnia & Herzegovina, (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo, up to 150 mines have been identified by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as areas of concern. More than 50 of these sites, some of which have been abandoned or 'orphaned', posed a serious risk to human health, the environment and regional stability, said UNEP. ...
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