Chile top court ratifies closure of Canadian-owned Pascua Lama project. miningnews
The court upheld the three charges from the environmental regulator, despite Barrick’s allegations the regulator had acted outside of its powers, it said in its ruling.
The country’s environmental regulator had said the project damaged native flora and fauna, did not fully monitor melting rates of nearby glaciers and dumped acidic waters into a local river. Barrick appealed the 2018 ruling, though in 2020 an environmental court affirmed the decision, which included a fine of more than 7 billion pesos .
Environmental organizations and local communities had strongly opposed the project, located in Chile’s Atacama region, on the grounds that it reduced the availability of water in the area and impacted nearby glaciers.
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