Dumping huge volumes of polluted tailings in Essequibo River
Conditions of lawlessness and chaos are reportedly prevailing at a section of the former Omai Gold Mines Ltd (OMGL) mining site in the Essequibo river where ‘raiders’ have commandeered an area and are pursuing illegal gold mining activities with the knowledge of the authorities.
And this newspaper has learnt that more than a dozen private large scale mining enterprises currently operating at the site are dumping around fifteen times more than the allowable limit of toxic tailings from their operations into the Essequibo.