Bosnia and Herzegovina: Activists file lawsuit against Adriatic Metals for environmental pollution & submission of false information to authorities
摘要
日期: 2023年6月22日
地點: 波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納
企業
Adriatic Metals - Parent Company , Adriatic Metals BH d.o.o. - Subsidiary項目
Rupice underground mine - Operation受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納 , 採礦 , Gender not reported )議題
Corruption , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment回應
已邀請回應:是,由Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
資訊來源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2023年6月22日
地點: 波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納
企業
Adriatic Metals - Parent Company , Adriatic Metals BH d.o.o. - Subsidiary項目
Rupice underground mine - Operation受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納 , 採礦 , Gender not reported )議題
Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment回應
已邀請回應:是,由Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
資訊來源: News outlet
[Translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
Criminal complaint for "Crvenih Stijena" - Illegal landfill of excavations from Rupice heavy metals mine, 22 June 2023
NGG Nature Park Trstionica and Boriva filed a criminal complaint against the responsible persons and employees of Adriatic Metals BH (under the former name: Eastern Mining) d.o.o. Vareš; responsible persons in legal entities: Adriatic Metals Plc and TQM Lukavac and responsible persons and employees as well as the Minister of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
...[T]hese persons formed a dump of excavations from the Rupica heavy metal mine in the area of the Crvena stijene locality before the finality of the Decision.
The above-mentioned persons presented false information as true, for the purpose of obtaining an environmental permit for the disposal of "non-hazardous" waste.
Further, the criminal complaint was also filed for falsifying data on biodiversity and watercourses in such a way that they denied the existence of many streams near the planned disposal site and which are threatened by pollution, which are potable mountain streams, and in such a way that they denied the existence of endangered and protected species on the same locality.
...[T]he activists brought evidence of an illegally built wide industrial road to the detriment of the forest that they cut down, damaged the surrounding trees, removed the coast and caused the appearance of smaller landslides, covered the trees on the downhill with a large amount of excavation.
...[T]he animals in this locality are endangered and fleeing from their habitats, for which there is also material evidence...