Lao government suspends approving new mining projects
(KPL) The government of the Lao PDR has now suspended approving new mining projects. By this the Ministry of Energy and Mining in collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and local authorities is instructed to estimate the ongoing mining projects nationwide. The government also ordered authorities concerned to inspect all documents of mining concessionaires in their site office and warn the companies that do not follow the rule and law of the Lao government.
Ohh ! good ! Mr. Soulivong Dalavong, you are a very couragous Minister for protecting the right of the province as the country as a whole and the right of its people and the benefit of the Lao PDR over those mines despite the strong and powerful men who own the consession right on mining projects... Let us not forget that extracting ores from the earth is not like drawing water from a well, it dissapear for ever and the dangerous chimical composant remains for ever too and will affect lao people life and those who destroy legally our country will gain the benefit from the pain amd sorrow of our land and our people. Please ! stop them , stop our derisory development and focus it to other visions, to other directions that suit better the skill of our people and let the natural resourses there where God had provided us and keep them for our descendants and when those ores become rare and cannot be found elsewhere...well, our grand grand children will be able to extract and sell them with super high price with this assets they will surely be prosperous and happy for ever and no other nations will be at the position to look down on them as their grandparents have been.
Ohh ! good ! Mr. Soulivong Dalavong, you are a very couragous Minister for protecting the right of the province as the country as a whole and the right of its people and the benefit of the Lao PDR over those mines despite the strong and powerful men who own the consession right on mining projects... Let us not forget that extracting ores from the earth is not like drawing water from a well, it dissapear for ever and the dangerous chimical composant remains for ever too and will affect lao people life and those who destroy legally our country will gain the benefit from the pain amd sorrow of our land and our people. Please ! stop them , stop our derisory development and focus it to other visions, to other directions that suit better the skill of our people and let the natural resourses there where God had provided us and keep them for our descendants and when those ores become rare and cannot be found elsewhere...well, our grand grand children will be able to extract and sell them with super high price with this assets they will surely be prosperous and happy for ever and no other nations will be at the position to look down on them as their grandparents have been.
(KPL) The government of the Lao PDR has now suspended approving new mining projects. By this the Ministry of Energy and Mining in collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and local authorities is instructed to estimate the ongoing mining projects nationwide. The government also ordered authorities concerned to inspect all documents of mining concessionaires in their site office and warn the companies that do not follow the rule and law of the Lao government.
