Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman yesterday disclosed that government is currently negotiating with the Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc. for compensation for environmental degradation caused by the Aurora Gold Mine.
“The government is pursuing offset with the Aurora goldmines… it would be Aurora goldmines paying to the government of Guyana a figure that we believe is sufficient to compensate for the degradation being caused by its mining,” Trotman stated, when the Committee of Supply reconvened yesterday to continue deliberations on the 2016 budget estimates.
The Natural Resources Minister was at the time replying to a
