(The Country) – Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Tertius Zongo, mining investors meeting May 10, 2010 in Ouagadougou. Among other topics covered during the exchange, the uncontrolled use of chemicals on mining sites, the suspension of the issuance of production permit the slow implementation of the customs exemption, deduction at source for providers not established in Burkina Faso and the proposed stop mining..
This consultation meeting was aimed to examine the concerns of mining operators and government, and make proposals to boost the same sector. Speaking on behalf of mining, Justin Elie Ouedraogo, president of the Professional Association of Mine in Burkina Faso (GPMB), acknowledged that the meetings with the authorities concerned have to resolve certain concerns raised in 2008. However, he specified that all these problems remain valid, due to the enormous difficulties of understanding in the interpretation of texts of the mining sector specificities, he said, are not taken into account by the Administration. cyanide in gold mining on some sites.
And on this last point, the first head of GPMB has suggested that its structure is intended to establish a charter of ethics by which each member must commit to strict environmental standards and assume full responsibility for its economic and social structure. And the voice of mine to invite the authorities to strike with full force of the law those engaged in these reprehensible practices, while urging the committee GPMB environment to accompany the Administration. A complaint that has found a sympathetic ear meeting spot, the head of government has instructed the ministers in charge of these issues to make concrete proposals for action to be synergistic in this regard.