The public sentiment on the proposed mining projects in Romania is predominantly negative, driven by significant concerns regarding environmental preservation and cultural heritage. While some positive remarks acknowledge Romania's beauty and progress, the general mood underscores a strong emotional investment in safeguarding the country's natural landscapes and historical sites, with fears that mining could lead to detrimental ecological and social consequences.

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Trump: “It’s time to bring democracy to Romania.”

x-Alexander

&gt;The EU’s push to reduce dependence on critical materials is giving a second life to several abandoned mining projects.

nimicdoareu

Please don't flood our rivers with cyanides again, it was enough once to reintroduce life into them. Thanks!   
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000\_Baia\_Mare\_cyanide\_spill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill)

ChargeIllustrious744

Ancalites

Acrobatic_Morning17

Please don't propose anything to Trump (it was Zelensky who started pushing that mineral deal and Trump ate that bait and ate entire dish). 

I hope Romanian government or call it a deep state are aware of the strategic view for decades ahead and won't sell away the country like Ukraine did (Ukrainian constitution is now less valuable than mineral deal, check it out)

Mean-Razzmatazz-4886

That makes me happy to hear, apparently Romania has some of the oldest growth forests in Europe.

Sueti_Bartox

These are the sort of kind rich pricks who you should be voting for

Outrageous_Delay6722

I hate that I am so jaded that my first thought is I wonder how this will be exploited in a few years. If this is real then this person is a real hero and deserves some recognition.

ivey_mac

This is an excellent project... Ireland kept a herd of European bison in Fota wildlife park, as did a few other countries, and they were bred up in numbers and released back into the wild in Romania a couple of years back as part of this project.

Ehldas

AverageLiberalJoe

EvolvedMonkeyInSpace

The_Drooth

Outrageous-War-2074

This is good. Also no resident evil village jokes please

jameskchou

DecisiveVictory

Found it! Actual good news! This is great.

hypatianata

Don't believe this. This reeks of Libertarian bullshit. 

SavagePlatypus76

Article:

"BUCHAREST: A Canadian mining company on Friday lost an arbitration case against Romania after it blocked a gold mining project at a site now recognised by Unesco, Bucharest announced.

Canadian firm Gabriel Resources had sought up to US$6.7 billion (6.1 billion euros) in damages from the Romanian government for pausing the development near the village of Rosia Montana in the Carpathians, home to 2,000-year-old Roman mining galleries Unesco added to its World Heritage List in 2021.

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a World Bank arbitration panel, rejected Gabriel Resources' claims for damages in a ruling published Friday by the Romanian government.

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu hailed the decision in a statement on Facebook, appearing to take a swipe at previous governments that supported the project.

"Romanians must not suffer because of the decisions of some prime ministers who put their personal interests above national interests!" he wrote.

Gabriel Resources did not immediately comment on the ruling.

The company was granted a licence to mine for gold in the area in 1999, but the project was put on hold in 2013 after nationwide protests sparked by environmental concerns.

In 2016, Romania declared Rosia Montana a site of historical interest, granting it protection from mining activity.

In its complaint registered with ICSID, Gabriel Resources accused the Romanian government of "a sustained failure to act in administrative proceedings despite there being an obligation to act."

The company also said Romania didn't offer compensation after halting the project.

Government spokesman Mihai Constantin said prior to the decision that Romania wanted to "minimise" any "budgetary and social impact" for the eastern European country.

The local community had been split over the gold mining project, with some welcoming the potential economic opportunities and others worrying about the environmental impact. --AFP"

adyrip1

I'm Canadian, and I support this decision.

OneForAllOfHumanity

Mining companies have trashed Canada's reputation in Latin America. I know this first hand.

Ok-Living-6724

I may be mistaken. Have done volunteer work in the Guatrlama Highlands. Canadians are not well liked there. Mining Companies have conspired with corrupt politicians to steal land and expell indigenous or rural peoples from land families occupied for centuries. They've hired thugs to intimidate and kill community organisers and polluted water ways. It's a disgrace.

No such thing as a Canadian mining company. American owned, incorporated in Canada because American legislation would make companies libel in American courts for economic, social and environmental damage in other countries. It's like freighters that are registered in Liberia to avoid taxes and other consequences

Many countries are considering leaving the ICSID treaty, it gives way too much power to a body of lawyers with very little transparency.

[deleted]

Got to be some tunnels under Bucharest. Probably lots of cold war bunkers as well!

Iheartriots

DrJokerPerz

Didn't some dude with a blood kink have a castle there?

GxZombie

Herculane baths, Turda salt mines, or you could visit the ghost town of Hunedoara (Tomnatec, Bătrânei, Mosorul, Măgureni) or if you want some urban adventures I recomand the old industrial cities of the south, like Galați, Giurgiu, Tulcea, Târgu Jiu ... Most of those have abandoned industrial buildings which you (shouldn't) could explore

reikitecture

You can't just share one photo, lol. We want to know what's inside 🧐

Dr-Emmett_L_Brown

Not abandoned but peles castle (cedilla on s in peles)

Check atlasobscura for cool, alternative destinations

aluminium_is_cool

Tom10716

mrromanian

jplay17

If you search adăpostulmeu.com you will see every bunker in romania and there are more than 700.000

Normal că *corruption allegations*, o dată apare ocazia să se facă ceva frumos în țara asta și chiar și atunci trebuie să se bage unul să mănânce și gura lui ceva.

Ne plangem de fiecare data ca europenii nu vor ca romanii sa nu stiu ce... Plm ne-au dat un proiect sa-l facem noi si ne-am batut pl de el in stilul clasic. Pana la articolul asta din nature am mai citit vro 10-15 autohtone despre bataia de joc de la Magurele. 

Proiecte conduse de "meseriasi" cu know how de "las-o ba ca merge asa"...

becu_ars

&gt;Romania’s largest scientific institute — the site of a multimillion-euro, world-leading research laser — is being rocked by a series of disputes involving its director. In July, a trade union representing scientists at the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) near Bucharest lodged a corruption complaint against their director, Nicolae-Victor Zamfir, with Romanian public prosecutors. The researchers allege that Zamfir’s reappointment as director was illegal. They also say that he has mismanaged the institute, disrupting its science, and the project to build the laser as part of the [European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)](https://www.nature.com/news/laser-centre-lights-up-eastern-europe-1.11438) initiative, which is risking Romania being cut off from the venture.  
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&gt;In [the complaint](https://www.b1.ro/stiri/eveniment/exclusiv-laserul-de-la-magurele-sesizat-la-dna-acuzatii-de-trafic-de-influenta-pe-numele-lui-nicolae-zamfir-coordonatorul-proiectului-si-dragos-ciuparu-secretar-de-stat-la-ministerul-educatiei-337155.html), the researchers protest against the extension in February of Zamfir’s contract as head of IFIN-HH by Romania’s secretary of state for research, Dragoş Ciuparu, for nearly another four years. They say that this is problematic because Zamfir is 68 years old — three years over the legal age limit for such a public-servant position. They also filed a complaint against Ciuparu, acusing him of abuse of office, and allege that Zamfir is complicit in the abuse.  
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HoneyBearWombat

Are si Romania ceva de facut in lumea stintifica si pe aia o futem

ferrydragon

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