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+ Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited says it has the expertise to apply land reclamation techniques to remediate degraded sites due to illegal mining activities. The company said over the past 15 years, it had made huge investments in infrastructure, technology and equipment towards managing waste, and could therefore reclaim mined-out sites if given the opportunity. The Managing Director of Zoil Services Limited, a subsidiary of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Dr Kenneth Asamoah-Boateng gave the assurance during Thursday’s National Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Accr...

Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bonney 30.5k Shares 705 The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, has lauded the bipartisan nature of discussions at the National Dialogue on Small Scale Mining at the Accra International Conference Centre. He, therefore, commended the leaders of political parties for their participation and support for the two-day event. "This is a true Ghanaian adventure. This clearly shows that with a bipartisan attitude,we can achieve a lot for the country," he said in his opening remarks on day two of the dialogue. Plenary He, among other things, ...

  Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called on Ghanaians to support the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor in his quest to end illegal mining in the country. The Minister, during a National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining, pledged to fight the menace. In a 15-point communique read by him on Thursday, April 15, Abu Jinapor stressed that sanctions and penalties imposed by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 995) will be applied to all those who infringed on the law. He boldly submitted that the sanct...

President Akufo-Addo Calls For National Consensus To Promote Responsible Mining

  The European Union is threatening to stop the purchase of cocoa from Ghana because of deforestation and child labour. The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control, Dr Emmanuel A. Dwomoh, said the EU had attributed the problem to cocoa farming, which unfortunately was not the case but illegal mining or galamsey. The EU, which purchases about 80 percent of cocoa from Ghana, had indicated places which hitherto were covered with forest in the 70s and 80s but had been depleted. Dr Dwomoh made this known Thursday, April 15, 2021 when he pr...