In Turkey, xx miles southeast of the ruins of Troy, sits the i time beautiful mount of Ida. Turkish fir has grown on this mount since the days of Helen of Troy too for centuries those forests convey been populated past times deer, wild boar too jackal.
That is they did until the Canadian society Alamos Gold decided to dig for gold. Local environmentalists claim that the society has cutting downwards 195,000 trees inwards training to mine the mount inwards lodge to extract gold. This is 4 times the release of trees the society claimed it would take away inwards its 'environmental' report. Thanks to Greenpeace nosotros tin forcefulness out truly run into the devastation caused past times Alamos Gold using earlier too subsequently satellite imagery of the mountain.
Greenpeace's Kaz Dağları interactive map ('Kaz' is the locals cite for Mount Ida) includes satellite imagery from Feb too August of this year. If yous swipe betwixt the 2 sets of imagery yous tin forcefulness out clearly run into the devastation caused past times the state clearance inwards training for the Alamos mine. You tin forcefulness out too clearly run into why the locals are real upset.
Earlier this calendar week 5,000 protesters gathered virtually the site of the planned mine. Dogu Biga, a subsidiary of Alamos Gold, claims that exclusively 13,400 trees convey been cutting downwards inwards training for the mine too that the society volition replant trees subsequently they convey finished mining for gold. They too deny the protesters' claims that cyanide volition live on used inwards the mines.
