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Business
Gold Mine Protest Draws 10,000
In unrelenting demonstrations against a gold mine in northern Greece that has gotten the go-ahead from the government, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of the country's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, in a bid to stop the project...
Greece
Protest in Thessaloniki Against Gold Mining Projects
About 3,000 protesters have marched in the northern Greek city in protest against what they claim are environment-threatening gold mining projects.
Riot police barred the protesters' intended route to the Canadian Consulate on Saturday, but no incidents were reported.
Canadian company...
Canada
Greek Court Gives Canadian Eldorado Gold Green Light to Proceed With Gold Mining Amid Protests from Environmental Groups
Eldorado Gold is a Vancouver-based company which has become quite famous in Greece lately, not for a good reason, though. Canadian investors chose a forest area in northern Greece to run a gold mining project but Greek people of...
Economy
Council of State Orders Canadian Company to Stop Cutting Trees at Greek Mines
The Greek Council of State has ordered Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold Corp to stop cutting trees on its mining properties in the region of Halkidiki, Northern Greece. The order was officially announced on Wednesday and the company commented that other...
Canada
Greeks Protest Against Vancouver’s Eldorado Gold Mining
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By Dawn Paley - As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are pushing open pit mining as a way out of the country's economic despair. But just as folks in Greece have taken action against...
Canada
Canadian Mining Company To Invest $2 Billion in Greece
Canadian mining firm Eldorado Gold Corporation announced on Monday that it would make a $2 billion investment in recession-hit Greece, which is expected to create 2,000 jobs over several years as a result of its acquisition of European Goldfields...