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- Romania suffers another toxic spill
- Associated Press, 10 March 2000. Just six weeks after a
major cyanide spill there, the Romanian government said
20,000 tons of metal pollutants escaped from a mine Friday
in the northwestern part of the country.
- Dwindling Work Force Spells Trouble for
- By Marian Chiriac, InterPress Service, 16 March 2000. The
country's population is dwindling, a direct result of
rising waves of emigration and falling birth rates. The main
problem is that fewer and fewer Romanians want to have
children due to the difficult economic situation in the
- Rosia Montana: Cyanide in a
- By Stefania Simion and Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen,
PATRIR, 23 August 2002. Ecology, Corporate Profit, and the
Struggle for People's Rights. In a remote part of
Romania in South-Eastern Europe, a Canadian mining company
in cooperation with the Romanian Government are planning
what might be the most devastating environmental catastrophe
in European history.