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Owusu Koranteng receiving a Public Eye Award he won in 2011 Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Executive Director of West Africa Communities against Mining (WACAM), has stated that efforts being made by ...

Tarkwa (W/R), Sept. 7, GNA - Mr Daniel Owusu Koranteng, Executive Director of Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) has said the mining activities of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL) do not promote good neighbourliness.

Apr 27, 2005· DANIEL OWUSU-KORANTENG, ACCRA, GHANA Daniel Owusu-Koranteng is Executive Director of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM), a Ghanaian community-based non-profit organization with a mission to protect the environment, natural resources, and the rights of marginalized communities affected by mining.

Apr 07, 2012· In Ghana, a mining activist fights the gold goliaths. ... "They take the gold and leave these kinds of things," says Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, .

Jul 30, 2010· Daniel Owusu-Koranteng (1), Executive Director of WACAM timewithdavid. ... David's discusses the effects of gold mining on communities living in the mining areas, and how those experiences can be ...

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The Executive Director of Wacam,Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has urged students privileged to be studying Archaeology to have a responsibility to become agents of the change in the re-thinking of our development efforts for our policymakers to understand that any development effort that does not consi...

Oct 08, 2019· Daniel Owusu Koranteng (with microphone) addressing the media yesterday in Tema. THE MARITIME and Dockworkers' Union (MDU) of Trade Union Congress (TUC) has expressed worry about the huge revenue losses and the resultant job losses that would hit the country's maritime industry, if government allows Meridian Port Services (MPS) to carry out the Terminal 3 concession agreement .

(CNN) -- Gold mining might have become a booming industry in resource-rich Ghana, raking in billions of dollars every year, but that wealth has failed to trickle down to many of the country's rural poor who live on the land where the gold is mined from. "Mining goes with a lot of myths, like it ...

Apr 10, 2012· "They take the gold and leave these kinds of things," says Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, executive director and co-founder of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM). Ghana, once known as the Gold Coast, is the continent's second-biggest producer of gold, after South Africa.

Apr 27, 2005· DANIEL OWUSU-KORANTENG, ACCRA, GHANA Daniel Owusu-Koranteng is Executive Director of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM), a Ghanaian community-based non-profit organization with a mission to protect the environment, natural resources, and the rights of marginalized communities affected by mining.

Sep 10, 2018· At the onset of the third gold rush, the mining communities were organised around traditional structures which became targets of co-optation by the mining companies. ... Daniel Owusu-Koranteng .

By Daniel Owusu-Koranteng & Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng. AN environmental buzzword, 'Water is Life' has been used to describe how essential water is to the sustenance of life. It is also common knowledge that mining is a major contributor to water and environmental pollution. Mining operations destroy both surface and ground water.

Apr 25, 2006· Worst practices should be immediate halted, especially cyanide heap leach gold mining and submarine and riverine tailings disposal. For more information. Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) Ghana: phone: +1-720-352-6195 (only April 25 until April 27) or email:

Accra, GNA - The Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) says Newmont Ghana Gold Limited could not distance itself from the arrest .

Jul 30, 2010· David's discusses the effects of gold mining on communities living in the mining areas, and how those experiences can be tapped to shape Ghana's emerging oil industry.

A letter titled "REPORT ON HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS AND ACCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATIONS OF NEWMONT AHAFO MINE" signed by Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Executive Director of Wacam, addressed ...

Download Citation on ResearchGate | On Sep 1, 2008, Daniel Owusu-Koranteng and others published Mining Investment & Community Struggles

According to Mr. Owusu-Koranteng, with the loss of livelihood some of the displaced people, especially the youth who do not have the skills required for permanent employment in mining companies, will be compelled to undertake employment in illegal gold mining activities.

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CNN International, the world's renowned cable news channel, has profiled Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, founder of mining advocacy group WACAM, describing him as "a voice for Ghana's poor." He ...

Mining companies take the gold and leave behind mountains of waste rock, says Ghanaian activist Daniel Owusu-Koranteng.Paul Carlucci, Special to the .

D. Owusu-Koranteng (GIN) – Between the 9th and 11th centuries, the kingdom of Ghana was so rich its dogs were said to wear golden collars, and its horses, adorned with silken rope halters, slept on plush carpets. Medieval Ghana was a wealthy empire, sitting comfortably on mountains of gold.

"They take the gold and leave these kinds of things," says Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, executive director and co-founder of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM). Ghana, once known as the Gold Coast, is the continent's second-biggest producer of gold, after South Africa.
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