{"id":3458,"date":"2019-09-27T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miningwatch.ro\/sitenou\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:06:34","slug":"victorie-majora-in-instanta-pentru-certej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miningwatch.ro\/en\/victorie-majora-in-instanta-pentru-certej\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal victory over the Eldorado Gold Certej gold mine proposal \/Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 28th, 2019 &#8211; Mining Watch Network Rom\u00e2nia is pleased to announce that the Eldorado Gold Certej gold mine proposal is blocked. Today the Cluj Court of Appeal upheld a verdict pronounced by the Cluj Court which cancelled the urbanism zoning plan (PUZ) for the entire mine proposal. Today\u2019s verdict is final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s ruling invalidates all acts based on the cancelled PUZ obtained by Deva Gold from 2010 to present &#8211; this ranges from environmental to construction permits. To ensure compliance our lawyers have today shared the ruling with the authorities at the local, regional and national level. Eldorado shareholders should count their losses and this environmentally disastrous mine project is now blocked indefinitely<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d said Roxana Pencea Br\u0103d\u0103\u021ban from Mining Watch Rom\u00e2nia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, the mining operator in Certej seemed unstoppable. One by one, the parent company Eldorado Gold grabbed no less than seven mining perimeters in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golden Quadril<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ateral in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania. Their intention has been to merge them into one huge open-pit exploitation; using cyanide to separate the gold from the ore. If their plan were to succeed, the exploitation and initial destruction would be double in size than what has been proposed at Ro\u015fia Montan\u0103.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PUZ for the Certej mining project was approved by the Certeju de Sus Local Council, via decision No. HCL 11\/2010. An urbanism zoning plan (PUZ) is a set of local rules governing land use and the design of industrial objectives. It is issued by the Local Council to the benefit of an operator and in this case, to the benefit of a mine operator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court verdict noted that the urbanism zoning plan (PUZ) was issued in violation of applicable environmental protection legislation. This also means that all permits obtained by Deva Gold from 2010 to present were obtained in violation of applicable European and\/ or Romanian legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Certej mine development is located in the commune of Certejul de Sus\/ Hunedoara county. It is owned by Deva Gold SA, a joint venture between Eldorado Gold (80%) and the state-owned company Minvest Deva (~ 20%). Eldorado Gold &#8211; ELD (TSX) \/EGO (NYSE) &#8211; is a Canadian low-cost gold company that plans to open the first cyanide-based open-pit gold mine in Romania.The project is facing strong opposition in Romania and beyond. The height of the dams for both tailings ponds would be at 169 m and 70 m respectively, and are an additional cause of concern as they would be located in the immediate vicinity of several densely populated villages: Hondol, Boc\u015fa Mic\u0103 and Certej.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: Court File 130\/117\/2016 <\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Rom\u00e2n\u0103.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stiri"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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