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EXCLUSIVE Guinea rail builders blast in chimp habitat, no plan to protect apes
Reuters
August 17, 2021 (South Africa)
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 17 (Reuters) - A Chinese-backed consortium building infrastructure for a massive iron ore mine in Guinea started blasting a railway tunnel in a habitat for a critically endangered chimpanzee species with no plan in place to manage the impact on the animals, company and government statements and satellite imagery show.
The consortium is developing the mine in the West African country's Simandou mountains. Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto PLC (RIO.L), (RIO.AX) has permission to mine an adjacent part of the deposit, the world's biggest, and has said it plans to export the ore using the railway and port being built by the consortium, Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS).
The construction company hired by WCS to build the railway, China Railway 18th Bureau Group Co Ltd, said in a June 7 statement on its website that a shaft was blasted into the hillside "with a roar of cannons" on May 29, weeks before Guinean officials met to consider an environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA).
Source
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-guinea-rail-builders-blast-chimp-habitat-no-plan-protect-apes-2021-08-17/
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