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“When the Ceaucescu government collapsed, state-run mines like Rosia’s limped along, posting huge losses and continuing to ignore their environmental impacts. In 2006, most were finally shut down. Thousands of workers lost their jobs, villages were plunged into poverty, and families were reduced to surviving on pitiful welfare payments, scavenging for mushrooms and berries in the forests, and breaking up abandoned concrete facilities with hammers, to recover and sell their steel reinforcing rods. Few families own a car. Indoor plumbing is almost unknown. Snowstorms make unpaved roads treacherous, and malnutrition and ill health are common. Seeing an opportunity to make money by being socially responsible, Toronto-based Gabriel Resources proposed to reopen the mines …. Almost immediately, the global anti-mining movement rose up in self-righteous indignation to oppose the project.” (01/01/08)