Acaci to implement better waste management
The Acacia North Mara Gold Mining site
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Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Citizen last week, the mine’s general manager, Gary Chapman said the company complies with all government’s directives to ensure environmental safety and health of the surrounding community.
Tarime. The Acacia North Mara Gold Mine is in discussions with relevant authorities on how to implement the government’s orders to improve its waste water infrastructures to meet environmental and human being safety requirements.
Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Citizen last week, the mine’s general manager, Gary Chapman said the company complies with all government’s directives to ensure environmental safety and health of the surrounding community.
During his one day visit at the mines on January 12 this year, the deputy minister in Vice President’s Office (Environment and Union Affairs), Mr Luhaga Mpina had given the mine a two week ultimatum to improve its ways of treating waste water and secure permit before discharging the water to Mara River and the surrounding area.
The minister who stressed his shock about how the mine stored the toxic water at its Tailing Storage Facility (TSF), without protection, also ordered immediate erection of a perimeter wall around its TSF.
