Photo: Darko Vojinović/AP PhotoThe documents state numerous and long-term adverse effects on the environment, that the first ore should be extracted in 2025 and that the mine should operate for 60 years
"Vreme" reveals that Rio Tinto prepared an Environmental Impact Study, but was never able to submit it while waiting for the Ministry. In the document that we came across, the hazards that threaten from the mine are detailed, how the company intends to prevent them, and the recognition of numerous negative impacts on the environment, with the statement that experience shows that the "economic-sociological impact" on the population is the only thing that brings benefits. But not everyone will have those "benefits" either.
The Drina alluvium is cited as the best solution for obtaining water, while the waste water, after processing, would be discharged into the Jadar. "The planned runoff collection system will be needed for many years after closure, and possibly forever," the paper says.
According to the document we obtained, large quantities of tailings would be excavated in 2023, and the first ore would be extracted in 2025. The graph shows that the mine would operate for a full sixty years. It should be noted that Rio Tinto drafted the document before announcing in January that it was postponing commercial production to 2027 due to "delays in obtaining approval for the exploitation field."
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Nenad Stefanović filed a disciplinary complaint against Branko Stamenković, claiming that his public appearances damaged the reputation and trust in the work of the public prosecutor's office. Among the disputed statements is the one that Stamenković gave to the weekly "Vreme", talking about the "para-prosecutor system" in Belgrade.
"I have not terminated the employment contract of any employee," said the principal of the "20. Oktobar" elementary school, Gordana Radojević, in her denial regarding the article about the parents demanding her resignation. He claims that the employees left at their own request or their fixed-term contracts expired.
The mayor of Smederevo, Jasmina Vojinović, was arrested along with two other city officials
The BIA rejected Radar's allegations of personnel changes and documentation, calling them part of a hybrid attack on the security system. The agency points out that by law it does not inform the public about internal personnel decisions.
The findings of the experts represent new evidence in the proceedings regarding the physical confrontation between Šapić and Mićić, which took place on September 28 at the Bežanijska Kosa.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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