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Gabriel delivers Rosia Montana EIA Annex to the Romanian government
Gabriel delivers Rosia Montana EIA Annex to the Romanian government.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTSX Trading Symbol: GBU\n\n\nTORONTO, May 4 /CNW/ - Gabriel Resources Ltd's ("Gabriel") 80% owned\nRomanian subsidiary, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation S.A. (RMGC), today\ndelivered the Annex to its Rosia Montana Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)\nto the Romanian Ministry of Environment. The Annex consists of answers to all\nquestions presented during the Public Consultation and Disclosure Process\nphase, conducted last summer in 14 public sessions across Romania, plus two in\nHungary which were held in accordance with the Espoo Convention on\nenvironmental impact assessment in a trans-boundary context, as well as all\nother stakeholder questions presented directly to the Romanian Government.\n\n\n"In our Annex, we provide answers to each of the 5610 questions and\n93 contestations put forward," said Alan R. Hill, President and CEO. "While\nthe Romanian Government sent us the questions on January 31, 2007, we have\nbeen working since last August to identify and answer likely questions. That\npreparatory work allowed us to provide the detailed answers we delivered\ntoday. I want to thank the more than 150 members of our Annex team for the\nmany months of work that produced such a comprehensive product."\n\n\nThe Annex, which runs to 12,600 English pages (12,900 Romanian pages),\nprovides detailed responses to each question, incorporating environmental,\nsocial, cultural, technical and legal aspects of the Rosia Montana Project\ninto the answers. In cases where questions suggested a need for more\ninformation and analysis, the Company commissioned in-depth studies, which are\nalso presented to the Romanian Ministry of Environment as part of the Annex.\nExamples include an independent Water Quality Modeling Study that was designed\nto determine river water quality downstream of the proposed mine from two\nperspectives: firstly, assessing the beneficial impacts of the clean up of\npast ("historical") mining pollution and secondly, assessing the potential\nimpacts resulting from worst case scenario pollution events from the Rosia\nMontana Project. Work was also done to detail the costs of developing the area\nfor tourism alternatives both in the absence of the new mining project and as\na parallel program to the new mine.\n\n\nUnder Romanian law, the Technical Assessment Committee (&...