The four environmental organizations Avataq, The Ecological Council, Noah and Renewable Energy warns against this controversial decision, in violation of the Aarhus Convention will reduce public access to environmental information, their involvement in decision-making, and their access to judicial verification and complaint time, they write in a joint press release.
Mikkel Myrup, chairman of Avataq, believe it rings hollow to go rønlandske and Danish politicians have defended the lifting of uranium ban that Greenland introduces the highest environmental standards for uranium mining in the world when The Government will now give up following the Aarhus Convention provisions, the communication.
Aarhus Convention is a convention of openness that gives the public access to information and participation in decision-making on local, national and international environmental issues. It focuses on the cooperation between the public and public authorities.
The proposal to remove the access was made while an expert workshop in Nuuk, which would prepare future legislation uranium area, according to the press release from the four environmental organizations. Participants have until now been kept secret, but now it has emerged that representatives of the Australian mining company Greenland Minerals and Energy, GME, which owns the vast Kuannersuit / Kvanefjeld uranium mining project, participated in the workshop.The Danish research institution, DIIS, was to lead the workshop, which was hermetically closed to the public, says the four environmental organizations.
Bo Normander, president of the Ecological Council believes, according to the press release, it is unheard of that a controversial mining company GME directly participating in a secret legislative process, to which representatives of civil society are denied access.
