Kazdağları Solidarity, Canadian Alamos Gold Company …

Kazdağları Solidarity made a statement regarding the answer that Doğu Biga Mining’s gold mine operation field in Kirazlı will be rehabilitated by the Regional Directorate of Forestry.

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20.01.2021

Doğu Biga Madencilik A.Ş., a subsidiary of Canadian Alamos Gold, is located in Atikhisar Water Basin, Çanakkale’s only drinking and irrigation resource. The license for the cyanide gold mine operated by the company expired on October 27, 2020, and the license of the company was not renewed.

A petition was submitted by the environmental organizations with the request of Çanakkale Regional Directorate of Forestry regarding the situation of the field. In the reply that the permits given by the Directorate on behalf of Doğu Biga Mining were taken back on 27.10.2020 and the cancellations were made; It was stated that “Necessary studies will be started to restore the regions belonging to the permit areas to the nature within the scope of the rehabilitation action plan. It is submitted for your information”.

Kazdağları Solidarity made a statement on the subject. In the statement, an official statement was requested from the relevant authorities, and the Kirazlı Gold and Silver Mine Project area was removed from the mining area status and rehabilitated with ecological and scientific methods as soon as possible, and the process was requested to be carried out in a transparent manner.
‘The company continued its existence in occupation position for another year’

According to the report of Eren Aşnaz from Çanakkale Event, in the statement made by Kazdağları Solidarity; “Kazdağları` has been struggling against metallic mining projects for years, and most of the projects have been stopped. Canadian Alamos Gold (100% subsidiary of Doğu Biga Mining Inc.) has long against Kirazlı Gold and Silver Mine Capacity Increase and Enrichment Project. With the intensification of the struggle for the last two years, the Water and Conscience Watch, the tented resistance that lasted for 425 days and the national and international support of this struggle, the company’s license numbered İR: 82225, which expired on 13 October 2019, could not be extended by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. Although the company did not have a valid mining license, the company continued its occupation in the area for one more year with forest permits.On 27 October 2020, the information that a protocol was signed between Çanakkale Regional Directorate of Forestry and the company to allocate the area to the Regional Directorate of Forestry was reflected in the press, Despite all our requests, it was not shared with the public. He made a statement that the company license law in urea continues and that he did not give up the Kirazlı Gold Mine Project. “
‘It is very pleasing to have reached the rehabilitation stage’

In the statement, which stated that serious pressures were experienced during the seizure; “During the watch of water and conscience and the resistance with tents……

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