Rosia Montana

The densely wooded Carpathian Mountains are rich in history and myth. They are also one of the last ancient forests of Europe. Besides being the home of many tiny remote villages, the forests are also home to lynx, wolves and brown bear.
But there's gold in them thar hills & the timber has $$$ in some people's eyes. The Roman Empire coveted the gold back in the mid second century but the worst thing they did was enslave people & work them to death. ok, and rape, pillage & make their captives engages in deadly sports...
But the good old days are over. With modern technology, businesses are stripping the woods, leveling the mountains & creating vast pools of cyanide contaminated water.In an open letter to The Prince of Wales, Rupert Wolfe Murray wrote:"

The proposed gold mining project at Rosia Montana will erase three pristine villages and four mountains from the face of the planet, creating a sterile zone the size of a small city that will be contaminated for millennia.
The investors plan to build a 185 metre high dam (higher than the Three Gorges Dam in China) that will contain 214 million tons of cyanide waste.

What could go wrong?
Besides destroying the habitat of countless plants & animals and besides destroying the culture & communities of people, a dam failure would be devastating. The Canyon Lake dam in South Dakota was nowhere near as large as this dam being proposed in Romania & the lake wasn't polluted with poisonous chemicals when it failed and flooded Rapid City. They won't be building any parks if this dam fails.

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