Greencastle Gold

Started by Hereiam, November 28, 2017, 11:07:55 AM

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Hereiam

So under the hills of Greencastle Co. Tyrone is the worlds largest untapped resource of gold which the British crown is going to make a lot of money from. They south can only stand by and watch their good neighbours make a killing on the natural resources up here. The north might not be that big of a basket case after all.

sensethetone

It's not too popular with the folks of Greencastle.

Hereiam

The local politicians are not making much noise about it to date. The amount of waste that this mining will generate is going to be colossal and there are just proposing to stockpile it on site, and the fact that cyanide is going to be used to extract the gold from the rock just adds to the danger.

screenexile

As long as the gold makes it's way across to the Sixtowns I'm all for it . . .

Dire Ear

Some fine Irishmen who have fought for Ireland now selling parts of it to a foreign multinational......but that's beside the point.  Great to have all the jobs but at what cost if there was an accident with the cyanide

sensethetone

Quote from: screenexile on November 28, 2017, 11:31:42 AM
As long as the gold makes it's way across to the Sixtowns I'm all for it . . .

Sure it's going to be all windmills..

general_lee

£3bn worth of gold but only £750m will go into the economy over 25 years...

Tyrdub

Her indoors' family from Greencastle, this has split families and caused rows with people taking opposite sides. I've heard some of the underhand stuff and the stuff some people mightn't find important, but it is to the locals who have been there from the year dot, this will not end well

Hereiam

They are sayin 3bn but it will be alot more.

GetOverTheBar

Anybody fancy meeting at the foot of the mountain with a spade?

OgraAnDun

Quote from: GetOverTheBar on November 28, 2017, 01:35:14 PM
Anybody fancy meeting at the foot of the mountain with a spade?
With the shovel over your shoulder as the full moon rises, obviously.

ziggysego

Quote from: screenexile on November 28, 2017, 11:31:42 AM
As long as the gold makes it's way across to the Sixtowns I'm all for it . . .

Dalradian are looking to start work up through Sixtowns, Draperstown and right through the Sperrin to near Derry City. This isn't just a Greencastle problem.

This is extremely dangerous stuff, using Cyanide to process the gold they find in Greencastle and Rouskey. If that gets into the water, it'll affect the whole island.

To date, Dalradian's fact has changed in each interview they've done. The number of jobs it will create, the amount of gold there is, what the plans are for Greencastle.

The information they gave their stockholders is very different to what is happening in Greencastle.

No-one is going to benefit from this but the International Shareholders and the British Crown.

#saveoursperrins
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Tyrdub

Quote from: ziggysego on November 28, 2017, 02:30:45 PM
Quote from: screenexile on November 28, 2017, 11:31:42 AM
As long as the gold makes it's way across to the Sixtowns I'm all for it . . .

Dalradian are looking to start work up through Sixtowns, Draperstown and right through the Sperrin to near Derry City. This isn't just a Greencastle problem.

This is extremely dangerous stuff, using Cyanide to process the gold they find in Greencastle and Rouskey. If that gets into the water, it'll affect the whole island.

To date, Dalradian's fact has changed in each interview they've done. The number of jobs it will create, the amount of gold there is, what the plans are for Greencastle.

The information they gave their stockholders is very different to what is happening in Greencastle.

No-one is going to benefit from this but the International Shareholders and the British Crown.

#saveoursperrins

+1

Hereiam

Ziggy was the land bought or was it vested by Dairadian?

Mongander

All that glitters is not gold.

The threat this planning application presents to Greencastle, and to the surrounding areas (initially in Counties Tyrone, Derry, Donegal & Antrim) are devastating.

Dalradian have tried to package this as a good news story - quoting job creation and ridiculous amounts of money (based on no actual evidence - a point even noted on their own PR literature).

The reality is very different - there are limited jobs for a limited period of time.

At the end, what we are going to be left with is the total destruction of Greencastle village - this proposed "mine camp" (Dalradian CEO Patrick FN Anderson's own words), toxic processing plant and waste dump is to be located less than 1km from the local football pitch, primary school and play group.
The waste dump alone is bigger than the entire centre of Greencastle village.

The toxic processing plant, if passed, will become the epicenter for dumping and processing toxic heavy metals not just in Ireland, but in Europe and most likely beyond (with Brexit the area will not fall within the jurisdiction of the EU, and will therefore not be obliged to follow EU legislation).

This Canadian Company have already been granted discharge rights (by a Civil Servant in the absence of an operational government here) to dump numerous toxins - including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, zinc & others - into one of the most protected waterways in Europe (the Owenkillew River, a tributary of the Foyle).

No true Gael can stand idly by whilst this threat hangs over our heads.

Check out Save Our Sperrins or Greencastle Community Voices on Facebook/Twitter (amongst others) for updates and more information on this, that you mightn't necessarily hear from the mainstream media.

Dalradian greed will not succeed.

#NoToxicGold
#DalradianOutOfIreland
#SaveOurSperrins
Tír Eoghain Abú!!!!