România a câştigat procesul Roşia Montană

Romania: the gold rush could cost the Romanian state at least 2 billion Dollars — Rosia Montana, les partisans du projet s'affichent partout dans le village. The Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains are known for their rich underground resources. This is particularly true in the commune of Rosia Montana, nestled in the heart of the Apuseni Mountains. Exploited since antiquity by the Romans, its gold veins have never ceased to whet appetites. In 1997, Gabriel Resources (GR), a Canadian company, in joint venture with the Romanian state-owned company Minvest Deva, concluded a twenty-year concession contract with the government. The Canadians planned to extract some 300 tons of gold and 16,000 tons of silver, with an estimated value at the time of $16 billion. This would have made it the largest open-pit gold mine in the world. However, the project quickly ran into a powerful movement of popular opposition in Romania and worldwide. Indeed, GR planned to implement a polluting process, banned in Europe, using some 12,000 tons of cyanide. This involved the construction of a tailings dam that would have flooded the two villages of the commune and displaced their 974 families, divided between supporters and opponents of the project. Opponents highlighted the disappearance of the Daco-Roman site, of great historical and archaeological value, as well as an unfortunate precedent in the neighborhood: an "ecological bomb" linked to the exploitation of a copper quarry. In the mid-1980s, in Geamana, located just 7 km from Rosia Montana, an artificial tailings lake submerged a village of 400 families. Only the church bell tower still emerges from the toxic sludge that contaminates the groundwater and once potable wells. Rural life today barely survives on its shores. Faced with international opposition, the government asked parliament to decide. Rosia Montana was then declared a "site of historical national interest," paving the way for its classification in 2021 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and its inclusion on the list of World Heritage in Danger. UNESCO,Image: 845577701, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jean-Christian Tirat / Sipa Press / Profimedia

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Premierul Marcel Ciolacu a anunţat, vineri seară, că România a câştigat procesul Roşia Montană.

Instanţa internaţională a respins pretenţiile reclamanţilor, companiile Gabriel Resources Ltd. şi Gabriel Resources (Jersey). Compania Gabriel Resources îşi exprimă „dezacordul ferm” şi spune că decizia de vineri a tribunalului de arbitraj de la Washington, care a dat câştig de cauză României în dosarul Roşia Montană, este „în întregime incompatibilă cu orice evaluare obiectivă a probelor prezentate în acest caz”, invocând în acest sens opinia separată exprimată de unul dintre arbitri.

”Am câştigat procesul Roşia Montană!!! Ne-am luptat pentru România pentru că era nedrept ca fiecare salariat şi pensionar al acestei ţări să fie penalizat pentru ticăloşia unor antiromâni” Mulţumesc echipei de avocaţi care a reprezentat România cu profesionalism, cinste şi onoare! Românii nu trebuie să sufere din cauza deciziilor unor premieri care au pus interesele personale mai presus decât interesele naţionale”, a scris, vineri seară, pe Facebook, premierul Marcel Ciolacu.

Acesta a adăugat: ”Nu am acceptat jaful în cazul vaccinurilor anti-Covid, nu am făcut-o nici acum! Bravo, România”.

Instanţa arbitrală internaţională s-a pronunţat, vineri, în cazul Roşia Montană.
Companiile Gabriel Resources Ltd. şi Gabriel Resources (Jersey) au solicitat despăgubiri în dosarul arbitral internaţional deschis împotriva României, legat de proiectul minier aurifer de la Roşia Montană, în valoare de minim 6,7 miliarde de dolari.