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03-16-2010, 08:00 PM
Hundreds of workers at the Barrick Gold installation in Pueblo Viejo, Sanchez Ramirez, including a large number of Peruvians, were intoxicated.
El Nacional newspaper yesterday had interviewed Fernando Sanchez Albavera, executive director of the Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC), who had denied the intoxication of the workers. "In no way, nothing has happened with the workers of the company," Sanchez had told the newspaper initially.
When the numbers of affected employees became more than the dispensary of the gold mine could handle, the story of the intoxication became the talk of the afternoon.
Barrick Gold mine would issue a confirmation of the intoxication some 24 hours later. In a statement, the company said that 236 employees of the company had suffered stomach problems due to a bacteria in the food supplied by Sodexco on Sunday that required hospitalization. The company said there were no seriously ill patients.
By that time the Ministry of Public Health had sent a team to the province that confirmed there was an intoxication problem. z101fm morning talk show reported that the personnel from the Ministry of Public Health were not allowed into the dispensary. Initially Minister of Public Health had said that there were at least 326 affected hospitalized in Sanchez Ramirez, and others were sent to hospitals in San Francisco de Macoris, Bonao and La Vega.
The incident comes at a time when community activists, legislator and church representatives are complaining that the mining company would not resolve the environmental disaster left by its predecessor in the province. Those that request the Sanchez Ramirez community have demanded a revision of the contract signed by the government on grounds that the negatives for the country and the community outweigh the positives of the mining operation.
On Monday evening, TV journalist Alicia Ortega (El Informe de Alicia Ortega) presented details of the controversy around the mining company and environmental damage in the area.
Lawyer Victor Castillo Seman said on Tuesday the z101fm radio talk show that a foreign expert from Australia came to evaluate the site where Barrick Gold would deposit a large amount of cyanide to be imported for the exploitation process. He said a leak of this chemical could cause an ecological disaster that could affect up to the Samana Bay.
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El Nacional newspaper yesterday had interviewed Fernando Sanchez Albavera, executive director of the Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC), who had denied the intoxication of the workers. "In no way, nothing has happened with the workers of the company," Sanchez had told the newspaper initially.
When the numbers of affected employees became more than the dispensary of the gold mine could handle, the story of the intoxication became the talk of the afternoon.
Barrick Gold mine would issue a confirmation of the intoxication some 24 hours later. In a statement, the company said that 236 employees of the company had suffered stomach problems due to a bacteria in the food supplied by Sodexco on Sunday that required hospitalization. The company said there were no seriously ill patients.
By that time the Ministry of Public Health had sent a team to the province that confirmed there was an intoxication problem. z101fm morning talk show reported that the personnel from the Ministry of Public Health were not allowed into the dispensary. Initially Minister of Public Health had said that there were at least 326 affected hospitalized in Sanchez Ramirez, and others were sent to hospitals in San Francisco de Macoris, Bonao and La Vega.
The incident comes at a time when community activists, legislator and church representatives are complaining that the mining company would not resolve the environmental disaster left by its predecessor in the province. Those that request the Sanchez Ramirez community have demanded a revision of the contract signed by the government on grounds that the negatives for the country and the community outweigh the positives of the mining operation.
On Monday evening, TV journalist Alicia Ortega (El Informe de Alicia Ortega) presented details of the controversy around the mining company and environmental damage in the area.
Lawyer Victor Castillo Seman said on Tuesday the z101fm radio talk show that a foreign expert from Australia came to evaluate the site where Barrick Gold would deposit a large amount of cyanide to be imported for the exploitation process. He said a leak of this chemical could cause an ecological disaster that could affect up to the Samana Bay.
http://www.noticiassin.com/www/?go=Display&act=display_article&aid=14056&tid=20
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)