Cav's Place

After Romania won the arbitration case, allowing RMGC’s exploitation license for Rosia Montana to expire and not extending it seemed quite certain, nothing more than a mere formality, and that was what happened on Thursday, the announcement being made with little fanfare. So, even though the company keeps lashing out, announcing that it will “vigorously […]

ISDS courts are known as an unfortunately particularly effective way for rich and powerful corporations to force states to allow them to exploit anything and everything for profit, without any care for the consequences, and drastically punish those who “dare” to try to protect the environment, human or workers’ rights, or anything else. So when […]

After being postponed twice, the discussions about other sites stretching on, Rosia Montana‘s turn finally came yesterday and, after what seems to have been one of the easiest decisions of the current session, with no amendments or comments, it was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List! However, while it was one of the 13 sites […]

Not much will be happening here, or anywhere for that matter, over the coming weeks, and likely the coming months as well, but before the measures taken to slow the spread of the new coronavirus caused the events already planned to be canceled and made any new plans pretty much impossible, there were two more […]

There were various other reactions, comments and on-line actions during this period, as well as in the days preceding the protest at the Ministry of Health, but I’ll just focus on the protests on February 4 and 14, though I only attended the latter. Still, I should at least briefly mention that, apparently on January […]