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THE Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has urged mining companies to comply with laws and regulations governing the extractive industry to minimise the environmental impact of their operations on mining communities.<\/p>\n
She said it was unjust for communities hosting mining activities to suffer environmental degradation and deforestation as a result of mining operations.<\/p>\n
“I hope that with the expanded mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THE Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has urged mining companies to comply with laws and regulations governing the extractive industry to minimise the environmental impact of their operations on mining communities. She said it was unjust for communities hosting mining activities to suffer environmental degradation and deforestation as a result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9704,8915,7216,4508,4509,5040,6477,257,254,6206],"class_list":["post-247984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-comply","tag-countrys","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-laws","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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