High Street’s application to mine in Kakum Nat’l Park-Expert, CSO’s blame LI 2462
The Minerals Commission has however revealed that the said application by “High Street Limited was rejected and therefore cannot be processed or considered whatsoever.”
An expert and some CSOs have attributed High Street Limited’s audacity to apply to mine in the Kakum National Forest to the laxity offered by the Environmental Protection(Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulation(LI 2462).
They are thus calling for the repeal of the said law to save the nation’s forest reserves from destruction.
In an interview on JoyNews’ News Desk the Executive Director of the Nature and Development Foundation, Mustapha Seidu noted that the passage of the LI 2462 has opened the floodgate leading to numerous mining permits being granted to various companies which is a matter of concern.
He thus posited that the said law makes every forest reserve in the country a candidate mining site and thus called for its immediate scrap.
In a similar breath, some Civil Society Organisations(CSOs) who are alarmed by the recent application by High Street Company to mine in the forest reserve, have at a stakeholder engagement on the new Regulation on Mining in forest reserves, called for the scrapping of L.I. 2462.
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The Minerals Commission has however revealed that the said application by “High Street Limited was rejected and therefore cannot be processed or considered whatsoever.”
In a statement signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Martin Kwaku Ayisi, the Commission thus assured the public that no mineral right shall be considered or granted in the Kakum National Park.
