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Greek Miners Protest Plans to Halt Eldorado Gold Skouries Operations
Apr. 16, 2015 10:31AM PST
Gold InvestingCBC News reported that workers at Eldorado Gold’s Skouries mine in Greece are protesting in Athens following a government decision to revoke the license for the project.
CBC News reported that workers at Eldorado Gold’s (TSX:ELD) Skouries mine in Greece are protesting in Athens following a government decision to revoke the license for the project.
As quoted in the press release:
Eldorado Gold’s gold mine project in Skouries and a processing plant currently under development were used by the former Greek administration as evidence of that its pro-business policies were working.
But on Feb. 27 the Vancouver-based company received notice from the newly elected government that its licence was revoked.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government said it wanted to examine whether the mine and processing plant, currently under construction, was in line with town planning and environment regulations.
An estimated 4,000 miners and other workers wearing vests and helmets marched to the ministry responsible for environment and development in Athens Thursday in support of the mine.