Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:16:10 PM
Here is a story from the Wall Street Journal on mining and Environmentalism in Transylvania.
Is this another case of hypocrisy?
Tonight, PBS will air "Gold Futures," a film by Hungary's Tibor Kocsis. The film focuses on residents in Romania's Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian town, who are divided over the benefits of a proposed gold mine. It also features Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company trying to convince them to relocate so it can dig for a huge gold deposit estimated at 14.6 million ounces, worth almost $10 billion. PBS describes the film as a "David-and-Goliath story."
The other side to the controversy is told in a new film that will never be shown on PBS, but is nonetheless rattling the environmental community. "Mine Your Own Business" is a documentary by Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. They conclude that the biggest threat to the people of Rosia Montana "comes from upper-class Western environmentalism that seeks to keep them poor and unable to clean up the horrific pollution caused by Ceausescu's mining." My question is why would George Soros care about this situation at all?
I think there is quite a bit more to this story than meets the eye. Remember, Mr. Soros is a businessman, and money is the name of the game.