Green Home: We welcome the ministry's position on the need to terminate the contract for the Brskovo mine

The non-governmental organization (NGO) Green Home announced today that it welcomes the line ministry's position on the need to terminate the contract for the Brskovo mine.

Television Vijesti announced yesterday that the Minister of Energy and Mining Saša Mujović will request today at the Government session to terminate the contract with the company "Tara Resources" on the opening of the Brskovo mine in Mojkovac.

"For a long time, Green Home has been pointing to the perils of this project and we believe that terminating the contract with the concessionaire is a step in the right direction when it comes to the future of Mojkovac and its wider area as well as Montenegro. All relevant facts indicate that Montenegro would benefit from this work more harm than good and it's high time to put an end to the idea of ​​reopening this mine," the statement of Green Home emphasizes.

The NGO added that there are numerous reasons why the reopening of the Brskovo mine is unacceptable from an environmental point of view.

"As a reminder, Mojkovac and the Tara River continue to suffer the consequences of a mine that was active 30 years ago. We had a concrete example a few days ago, with the spilling of waste water from the tailings pit into the Tara River, which is certainly not the first time. Every drop of waste water that flows into our rivers, apart from the ecological, it also causes huge economic damage, both to nature and to the citizens and the state. they leave environments that are polluted in order to preserve their own health and the health of their loved ones. Research shows that the soil of a wider area is still polluted by heavy metals that are a consequence of the former activity of the Brskovo mine," said Green Home.

They state that suspending this project would also mean fulfilling international obligations related to UNESCO, bearing in mind that they have already demanded assessments of the impact of this project on the Durmitor National Park from Montenegro.

The news announced today that officials of the Environmental Protection Agency said that the overall situation at the flotation site of the former Brskovo mine in Mojkovac is worse than could be assumed.

The officials explain that these are the first impressions after, on official duty, they collected preliminary information and facts in the field, as part of the implementation of the procedure for determining responsibility for potential damage to the environment.