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Volume 3

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Name of the questioneer Page 164 Vadan Marius 1165 Vadan Marius 3166 Sosdian Elvira 4167 Sosdian Elvira 8168 Campean Ioan 9169 Pintea Emilia 13170 Pantir Dan 16171 Pantir Dan 17172 Pantir Dan 20173 Botar Nicolae 21174 Bobar Gheorghe 22175 Bobar Gheorghe 26176 Botar Horia 29177 Botar Horia 32178 Botar Horia 34179 Botar Petru 35180 Botar Petru 37181 Botar Petru 38182 Botar Petru 39183 Botar Petru 41184 Botar Petru 42185 Lamba Elisabeta 43186 Lamba Elisabeta 44187 Botar Gheorghe 45188 Botar Gheorghe 48189 Botar Horia 49190 Botar Horia 50191 Botar Horia 51192 Lamba Elisabeta 52193 Palade Constantin 53194 Petruta Traian 56195 Petruta Traian 59196 Petruta Traian 60197 Botar Raluca 61198 Racz Porondy Claudiu 63199 Racz Porondy Claudiu 67200 Petruţa Traian 68201 Petruţa Traian 71202 Todea Marius Vasile 72203 Todea Marius Vasile 74204 Boia Ioan 77205 Boia Ioan 79206 Iancu Oligia 81207 Crainic Stefan Dorin 84

Name of the questioneer Page 208 David Eugenia 87209 Marc Andrei 90210 Roman Elena 93211 Bodea Viorel 96212 Bodea Viorel 97213 Cozma Elena 100214 Tuhut Liviu 103215 Albu Benone 106216 Albu Benone 107217 Vadan Rodica 110218 Vadan Rodica 112219 Ionut Dorina 115220 Ionut Dorina 116221 Miclea Cristean-Sergiu 119222 Miclea Roxana-Marina 122223 Miclea Roxana-Marina 124224 Purda Nicolae 127225 Visa Ciprian 129226 Bolundut Constantin-Claudiu 132227 Bolundut Emilia 135228 Bolundut Emilia 136229 Briciu Dragea Dionise 139230 Briciu Dragea Sanda-Elena 142231 Briciu Dragea Sanda-Elena 145232 Dragea Ana 148233 Dragea Ana 149234 Iancu Traian 152235 Iancu Traian 154236 Ciama Laurentiu 157237 Ciama Laurentiu 158238 Iancu Marin Silviu 161239 Macavei Maria 164240 Macavei Maria 165241 Marc Cornel 168242 Balea Gheorghe 170243 Mihon Emilia 173244 Culda Sorin 175245 Cioica Ioan 177246 Berindei Nicoleta 181247 Berindei Nicoleta 184248 Bendea Ioan 185249 Crisan Emil 188250 Crisan Emil 191251 Tuhut Constantin 193252 Tuhut Constantin 195253 Ciama Ecaterina 198

Item no. 164

Stakeholder name Vadan Marius

Stakeholder address Sat Soal, Nr. 1178, Com. Rosia Montana

Question/ Comment

Area's pollution, limits, the extent of pollution

Answer

The results of the environment assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after implementing the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan, including the transboundary impact, were expressed in a synthetic manner, into six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which are outlined by the quantified potential effects’ assessment of the Mining Project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment aspect/factor, are described below:

• The population – significant positive impact, generated by the Project’s provisions of this major investment in relation to the improvement of the social and economic conditions of the community on short, medium and long term.

• Waste management – neutral impact on the water and soil quality. The changing of the use for the land in Corna Valley will generate a negative impact during the construction and operation phase; this impact will considerably be diminished during the post-closure phase of the environment rehabilitation and by including blocks of land into natural fund. .

• Water – neutral impact; we add here that the provisions regarding the collection and treatment of the ARD related to the previous mining works and proper management of all wastes will generate a positive quantified impact on the surface and underground waters’ quality within the entire area.

• Air – insignificant negative impact, because the contribution of the operations to the pollutants’ concentration within the environment of the areas which include sensitive receivers will be very low, and the levels cumulated to the contribution of the existing sources will be well beyond the standard values.

• Noise and vibrations – insignificant negative impact; due to the mitigation measures, there won’t be sound discomfort situations and neither affects on the population or the constructions through vibration.

• Biodiversity, flora and fauna – negative impact during constructions and operations phase, positive impact after the closure of the activities and rehabilitation of the area.

• Cultural, architectonic and archaeological heritage – significant positive impact following the works conducted by RMGC so far and the measures included in the Cultural heritage management plan.

• People’s health – significant positive impact following the measures for creating modern living conditions, for improving the medical support and for ensuring that the environment quality is compliant with the legal provisions.

• Road infrastructure / Transportation – significant positive impact related to road infrastructure following its upgrade and increase of the traffic safety. Neutral impact regarding the transport related to the mining project’s activities.

• Landscape – insignificant negative impact, after rehabilitation and restoration of the area; the only significant negative impact, at local level, is the definitive change of the landscape.

• Soil/Use of land – neutral impact, due to the impact prevention/mitigation measures. • Material values – positive impact, following the use of local resources and purchase of

the properties based on mutual advantageous transactions. Significant positive impact, following the high recovery efficiency of the precious metal from the ore.

• Climate – insignificant negative impact; we add here that the gas emission sources which have a greenhouse effect will disappear after the closure of the operations.

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• Transboundary – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of surface waters following the failure of the tailings dam. The assessment of the transboundary residual impact on the surface waters related to the failure of the tailings dam from Corna Valley may be ranked as neutral.

For detail information please see Chapters 6 and 7 of the Environment Report for the Amendment of the Urbanism Plan for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone.


Item no. 165

Stakeholder name Vadan Marius

Stakeholder address Sat Soal, Nr. 1178, Com. Rosia Montana

Question/ Comment

Will wild animals be impacted by pollution?

Answer

The assessment results of the remaining potential effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) generated by the Plan in relation to the biodiversity, flora and fauna show a negative impact during the construction and operations phase, and a positive impact after the closure of the mine and rehabilitation of the area. The impact on the biodiversity resources may differ during the phases of construction, operations and closure of the Project. Thus, the level of possible efforts for implementing the management activities, aimed for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the natural habitats, must comply with the needs of the specific period of the Project’s life. The ecological reconstruction and rehabilitation activities developed during the entire life time of RMGC will focus on the following key objectives:

• Environment protection zones (ZPM): establish a network of Environment Protection Zones which will enable the preservation of the priority habitats, according to the studies regarding the reference conditions, emphasizing the protection of the rare and unique habitats within the impact area of the Project.

• Corridors for wildlife: establish vegetation network of corridors within and between the identified ZPM which enable the migration of the species. Where gaps exist, there could be required to plant a habitat.

• Plantations on the water sides: Planting of native species along the side of the springs and other water flows which offer reproduction habitat and migration corridors for wildlife and shade and nutritive substances which can improve the quality of the water flow.

• Micro Habitats: Placing certain nesting boxes for birds, resting boxes for bats and habitat areas for reptiles and amphibians (i.e. degraded logs, aquatic vegetation, sunbathing areas).

• Habitat plots: Habitat plots, especially within the ZPM and managed as seeds storage, nurseries for the plants which are going to be used for rehabilitating the blocks of land impacted by the project and/or degraded, or for the sites where certain plants could be transplanted from the impact areas.

• Rehabilitation of the water flows: the capacity of the degraded water flows from the impact area of the project for supporting healthy aquatic communities will be improved by mounting fords, pipes and ponds which support the oxygenation and offer habitat for the aquatic bios.



Item no. 166

Stakeholder name Sosdian Elvira

Stakeholder address Com. Rosia Montana, Sat Carpenis, Nr. 843, Jud. Alba

Question/ Comment

Environmental protection Jobs creation

Answer

1. The results of the environment assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after implementing the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan, including the transboundary impact, were expressed in a synthetic manner, into six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which are outlined by the quantified potential effects’ assessment of the Mining Project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment aspect/factor, are described below:













• Climate – insignificant negative impact; we add here that the gas emission sources



which have a greenhouse effect will disappear after the closure of the operations. • Transboundary – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of

surface waters following the failure of the tailings dam. The assessment of the transboundary residual impact on the surface waters related to the failure of the tailings dam from Corna Valley may be ranked as neutral.

For detail information please see Chapters 6 and 7 of the Environment Report for the Amendment of the Urbanism Plan for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone. 2. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:

• An average number of 2337 jobs during construction for a period of two years, most of



them being filled by local labour force; • 881 jobs during operational stage for a period of 16 years, most of them being filled by

local labour force; • 270 jobs during closure stage for a period of 5-7 years, most of them being filled by local

labour force; • Approx. 6560 indirect jobs during construction stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 5246 indirect jobs during operational stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional levels; • US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits, profit

taxes, royalties and other duties and taxes due toward local, regional and national authorities of Romania;

• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:

• The establishment in the area of a micro-bank that allows access to finance under advantageous conditions;

• Creation of a business centre and incubators to offer support, training (entrepreneurial, business plans, administrative and fiscal management, etc.), legal, financial and administrative consultancy, necessary to promote the development of local and regional business environment. This is necessary both for provision of assets and services to RMP and for encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of locals so as to be prepared for the sustainable development needs after completion of RMP.

Material Capital Infrastructure – to include buildings, power supply, transport, water supply and waste management:

• Income growth for governmental agencies, totalling US$1.75 billion for over 20 years (construction-production-closure activities), which will constitute supplementary funds that may be allocated by authorities for the improvement of community infrastructure;

• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.

Human Capital Includes: health and education:

• Construction of a dispensary and of a private clinic at Piatra Albă, available to the entire community through health insurance systems;

• Modernization of a wing of Abrud Hospital, available for the entire community through the National Health Insurance System;

• Improvement of the medical emergency system in the region; • Construction of a new school and of a new civic and residential centre in Piatra Albă; • Health awareness campaigns (in partnership with local authorities and NGOs) on:

reproduction health, nutrition and lifestyle, etc. • Partnerships with educational organizations and NGOs on improvement of educational

facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).

Social Capital Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage:

• Efforts for the development and promotion of cultural heritage in Roşia Montană both for locals and for tourism purposes – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Cultural Heritage Partnership ([email protected]);



http://www.certapuseni.ro/

mailto:[email protected]


• Education opportunities for adults and improvement of their skills through training programmes, educational funds and scholarships, in order to increase the chances to secure a job both directly with RMGC and indirectly – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Professional and Vocational Training Programme;

• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbourhood Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRoşia ([email protected]);

• RMGC supports the partnership managed by NGOs working with youths in the area for the improvement and upgrade of the community potential (www.certapuseni.ro).

Natural Capital Includes: landscape, biodiversity, water quality, ecosystems:

• Measures included in the management plan of RMP and in the Standard Operating Procedures for the prevention of accidents and emergencies management (SOP) shall result in the mitigation of environmental impact and improvement of environmental conditions, as stipulated under EIA;

• Improvement of environmental conditions shall increase life quality at Roşia Montană; • Training and support provided for the integration of environment quality issues into the

business plans; • Awareness campaigns on having environmental protection measures included in

economic activities; • Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to

include monitoring of environmental protection measures; • Business Conduct Code through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe RMGC

standards on environmental protection.




Item no. 167

Stakeholder name Sosdian Elvira

Stakeholder address Com. Rosia Montana, Sat Carpenis, Nr. 843, Jud. Alba

Question/ Comment

Environmental protection Jobs creation

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 168

Stakeholder name Campean Ioan

Stakeholder address Carpenis, Nr. 772

Question/ Comment

Date when mine is going to start Pollution extent TMF strength

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issuance of the environment permit for Roşia Montană Project, to Alba Environment Protection Agency, on December the 14th, 2004. The documentation submitted by the Titleholder consisted of: the technical sheet, the Annex to the Urbanism Certificate, and the Presentation Memorandum of the Project, which was posted on the web site of the Ministry commencing with December the 20th, 2004. Given the fact that the Project is subject to the provisions of the Espoo Convention regarding the environment impact assessment within transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through Letter no. 4596 of December 21st, 2004, to send notifications to the likely impacted countries: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed its participation to the impact assessment procedure of Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Hungary has also sent a preliminary proposal regarding the requirements for the content of the EIA Report for Roşia Montană Project. Bulgaria replied to the notification, saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Moldova Republic replied to the notification saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context, but it asked for the EIA Report, as soon as it will be completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia didn’t submit a formal response. In April, the 14th 2005, the RMP site was visited by representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Sibiu Regional Environment Protection Agency, Alba Environment Protection Agency and the Titleholder. The site visit was concluded with a report and followed by filling out the Check List according to the legislation in force. In May, the 10th 2005, there was the Technical Analysis Committee (TAC) at central level for ranking and defining the assessment domain. The TAC (formed by representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Ministry of European Integration, Ministry of Cultures and Cults, National Agency for Mineral Resources, National Administration of Romanian Waters) established the issues which need to be addressed within the EIA Report. In addition to the issues identified by the Romanian Institutions represented within this Committee, RMGC addressed the issues requested by the Environment Authorities from Hungary. The EIA Report was issued by certified entities based on the Compliance list for defining the assessment domain, the additional questions addressed by the TAC institutions and the proposals of the likely impacted countries, in accordance with the legislation in force.



The EIA Report was subject to public debates during July the 24th 2006, to August the 25th, 2006, in 14 different towns from Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Brad, Cluj-Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Arieş, Lupşa, Bucureşti, Deva, Arad);

Two public debates were held in Hungary, at Szeged and Budapest, as a result of the participation of Hungary in the EIA procedure for RMP within transboundary context;

The Ministry of Environment reviewed the results of the public debates, assessed the proposals / comments issued in reason by the stakeholders and will ask the Titleholder to complete the EIA Report with an Annex comprising solutions to the issues raised.

In January the 31st, 2007, the Ministry of Environment transmitted to the Project’s Titleholder, SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the Form comprising the observations and the comments received from the stakeholders during the public debate phase. In May the 4th, 2007, The Project’s titleholder submitted its response to the Ministry of Environment in relation to the observations and comments addressed by the stakeholders. This response represents the Annex to the EIA Report; The Ministry of Environment forwarded the Annex, in electronic format – CD – to the stakeholders which addressed the observations and comments. The Technical Analysis Committee convened at central level in June the 26th 2007, July the 10th 2007, July the 19th 2007 and August the 9th 2007. 4 Chapters of the EIA Report were reviewed, namely:

Chapter 1 – General provisions Chapter 2 – Technological processes Chapter 3 – Wastes Chapter 4 – Potential environment impact, including the transboundary impact, and

related mitigation measures, without the subchapter referring to the cultural and ethnical baseline conditions and cultural heritage (8 subchapters).

In September the 12th 2007, the Ministry of Environment suspended the EIA review procedure due to the cancellation of the Urbanism Certificate no. 105 / 2007. RMGC challenged the decision of having the environment integrated permitting procedure suspended, suing the Ministry of Environment and its representatives through the Court Introductory Application which forms the Scope of the file no. 8037/2/2007 pending with the Appeal Court of Bucharest – department of Administrative and Fiscal Litigation, ongoing. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. follows all the necessary requirements to have this procedure recommenced, awaiting for the continuation of the review on the EIA Report by the TAC which has to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, according to the law. Consequently, the gold ore mining is mainly dependent on the status of the Project’s permitting and especially on obtaining the environmental permit. 2. The results of the environment assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after implementing the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan, including the transboundary impact, were expressed in a synthetic manner, into six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which are outlined by the quantified potential effects’ assessment of the Mining Project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment aspect/factor, are described below:















• Climate – insignificant negative impact; we add here that the gas emission sources which have a greenhouse effect will disappear after the closure of the operations.

• Transboundary – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of surface waters following the failure of the tailings dam. The assessment of the transboundary residual impact on the surface waters related to the failure of the tailings dam from Corna Valley may be ranked as neutral.

For detail information please see Chapters 6 and 7 of the Environment Report for the Amendment of the Urbanism Plan for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone. 3. The design of the tailings management facility proposed for construction on Corna Valley for the containment of the tailings followed the design criteria compliant with the national and international standards. These criteria have the role of ensuring maximum safety during construction, operations and closure and post-closure phases, in what regards the prevention of the flooding, safety items for the stability of the embankments, seismic design criteria, etc. According to these criteria, the TMF is designed to withstand an earthquake on 8 degrees on Richter scale, event which was never recorder in the known history of Romania and it is difficult to imagine the mechanism which could generate it in future. The design elements which contribute to the increase of the TMF safety include:

• the storage capacity of the water volume is for 2 PMF events; • each phase of dam elevation will include the construction of a drainage ditch, which will

be used to discharge, in a controlled manner, the excess water which would result following an exceptional event. Thus, the erosion of the downstream embankment of the dam is not possible;

• the starter dam, built of rocks, with impermeable core, with slopes of 2O:1V on the downstream side and 1,75O:1V on the upstream side;

• Corna dam (the main dam), built of rockfill, by the centerline method, with slopes of 3O:1V on the downstream side;




• a drainage system at the bottom of the tailings dam and filter area between the tailings and rockfill, which has the role of facilitating the decrease of humidity and stabilize the stockpiled material;

• a monitoring system installed on the dam and near it, which has the role of alerting in time, about the potential instability conditions, high increase of the water level within the dam, high increase of the water volume stored in the TMF;

• implementing a thorough program for ensuring the quality during all phases of the TMF construction.

Given these circumstances, the occurrence of an accident which could result in the failure of the dam has an extremely low probability, actually only if there would be a volcano underneath the dam, this could break.


Item no. 169

Stakeholder name Pintea Emilia

Stakeholder address Com. Rosia Montana, Sat Daroaia, Nr 1039F

Question/ Comment

When does hiring start and on what period?

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP.



To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:

• An average number of 2337 jobs during construction for a period of two years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• 881 jobs during operational stage for a period of 16 years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• 270 jobs during closure stage for a period of 5-7 years, most of them being filled by local labour force;

• Approx. 6560 indirect jobs during construction stage generated at local and regional levels;

• Approx. 5246 indirect jobs during operational stage generated at local and regional levels;

• Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional levels; • US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits, profit









• Construction of a dispensary and of a private clinic at Piatra Albă, available to the entire




community through health insurance systems; • Modernization of a wing of Abrud Hospital, available for the entire community through the

National Health Insurance System; • Improvement of the medical emergency system in the region; • Construction of a new school and of a new civic and residential centre in Piatra Albă; • Health awareness campaigns (in partnership with local authorities and NGOs) on:




















Item no. 170

Stakeholder name Pantir Dan

Stakeholder address Com. Rosia Montana, Sat Daroaia, Nr. 1036

Question/ Comment

We want access roads!

Answer

The company shall attempt to resolve the infrastructure and social issues that are concurrent to the development of the mining project, issues that the Project committed to resolve, but the company under the law has no legal competency to resolve the overall issues pertaining to infrastructure and society; such issues are in the scope of competent state authorities.



Item no. 171



Question/ Comment

Jobs

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development.



The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:























Item no. 172



Question/ Comment

Take care of me, I am a poor child and I want to work for the rest of my life, and you have all my esteem

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.



Item no. 173

Stakeholder name Botar Nicolae

Stakeholder address Corna, Nr. 689B

Question/ Comment

Only people that sold their property are entitled to receive information? - I have a property, but I did not sell because I was not happy with the price

Answer

1. Everybody has the right to information, irrespective if they sold the property or not. For any information related to Roşia Montană Project, please visit the Information Centre set up mostly for being listened to and taking into consideration your opinions. 2. The method selected for establishing the value of the properties in Roşia Montană is compliant with the recommendations of the World Bank and is based on the “replacing value” within the same conditions. For this purpose, the replacing value was established on the grounds of real estate market assessment from 14 towns on a radius of 250km around Roşia Montană communa, and calculating an average of the observed replacing costs. Cluj town, even though located within the assessed radius, comes first on the list of places taken into consideration. If it is expected that the replacing value be reported to the real estate market from Cluj, then establishing an average would not make any sense. Following the same logic, it wouldn’t be fair and correct that the replacing value to be set in accordance with the prices recorded by a top place in the region – and that is Zlatna. It was considered that the fairest method to establish the “replacing value” is to calculate an average of the prices recorded by those 14 real estate markets. The current prices for various types of house and land were established giving consideration to the level of prices in Alba Iulia town. The prices were reviewed in the past 6 months, twice, in accordance with the results of the assessment mentioned above.



Item no. 174

Stakeholder name Bobar Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Sat Corna, Nr. 689A

Question/ Comment

Who is responsible for starting the Mining Project? Will RMGC offer their support after we move to Alba?

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issuance of the environment permit for Roşia Montană Project, to Alba Environment Protection Agency, on December the 14th, 2004. The documentation submitted by the Titleholder consisted of: the technical sheet, the Annex to the Urbanism Certificate, and the Presentation Memorandum of the Project, which was posted on the web site of the Ministry commencing with December the 20th, 2004. Given the fact that the Project is subject to the provisions of the Espoo Convention regarding the environment impact assessment within transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through Letter no. 4596 of December 21st, 2004, to send notifications to the likely impacted countries: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed its participation to the impact assessment procedure of Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Hungary has also sent a preliminary proposal regarding the requirements for the content of the EIA Report for Roşia Montană Project. Bulgaria replied to the notification, saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Moldova Republic replied to the notification saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context, but it asked for the EIA Report, as soon as it will be completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia didn’t submit a formal response. In April, the 14th 2005, the RMP site was visited by representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Sibiu Regional Environment Protection Agency, Alba Environment Protection Agency and the Titleholder. The site visit was concluded with a report and followed by filling out the Check List according to the legislation in force. In May, the 10th 2005, there was the Technical Analysis Committee (TAC) at central level for ranking and defining the assessment domain. The TAC (formed by representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Ministry of European Integration, Ministry of Cultures and Cults, National Agency for Mineral Resources, National Administration of Romanian Waters) established the issues which need to be addressed within the EIA Report. In addition to the issues identified by the Romanian Institutions represented within this Committee, RMGC addressed the issues requested by the Environment Authorities from Hungary. The EIA Report was issued by certified entities based on the Compliance list for defining the assessment domain, the additional questions addressed by the TAC institutions and the proposals of the likely impacted countries, in accordance with the legislation in force.



The EIA Report was subject to public debates during July the 24th 2006, to August the 25th, 2006, in 14 different towns from Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Brad, Cluj-Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Arieş, Lupşa, Bucureşti, Deva, Arad);



In January the 31st, 2007, the Ministry of Environment transmitted to the Project’s Titleholder, SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the Form comprising the observations and the comments received from the stakeholders during the public debate phase. In May the 4th, 2007, The Project’s titleholder submitted its response to the Ministry of Environment in relation to the observations and comments addressed by the stakeholders. This response represents the Annex to the EIA Report; The Ministry of Environment forwarded the Annex, in electronic format – CD – to the stakeholders which addressed the observations and comments. The Technical Analysis Committee convened at central level in June the 26th 2007, July the 10th 2007, July the 19th 2007 and August the 9th 2007. 4 Chapters of the EIA Report were reviewed, namely:

Chapter 1 – General provisions Chapter 2 – Technological processes Chapter 3 – Wastes Chapter 4 – Potential environment impact, including the transboundary impact, and


In September the 12th 2007, the Ministry of Environment suspended the EIA review procedure due to the cancellation of the Urbanism Certificate no. 105 / 2007. RMGC challenged the decision of having the environment integrated permitting procedure suspended, suing the Ministry of Environment and its representatives through the Court Introductory Application which forms the Scope of the file no. 8037/2/2007 pending with the Appeal Court of Bucharest – department of Administrative and Fiscal Litigation, ongoing. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. follows all the necessary requirements to have this procedure recommenced, awaiting for the continuation of the review on the EIA Report by the TAC which has to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, according to the law. Consequently, the gold ore mining is mainly dependent on the status of the Project’s permitting and especially on obtaining the environmental permit. 2. The families moving to La Recea, Alba Iulia, are supported as follows: Preparatory stage

Legal assistance – ownership deeds on the new dwelling and its accompanying land position

Registering the properties in the local fiscal records Agreements concluded for the provision of utilities (electric power, gas supply, water –

sewerage, sanitation services, telephony and cable TV) Occupational counselling, counselling on income generation activities Registering kids in kindergartens and schools Assistance provided for professional reorientation Population records: changing identification documents Transfer of pension files Alba network of family medical doctors: registering with a family doctor



Orientation and information on the new location and access to services

Knowing the city – general orientation, knowing the location of the main local administration buildings, access to services and visits of main tourist sites in Alba Iulia (one day trip).

An event organized at the end of construction of “La Recea” Quarter: “La Recea” community is greeted by the local authorities in Alba Iulia – to include a show and a presentation of traditions from Roşia and Corna.

Preparation of an Information and Orientation Guide aimed at facilitating inclusion of the families in Alba Iulia, providing information on the main public institutions, access to educational and cultural services, bill payments, local transport, taxis, transport means towards other destinations, private and public health services, postal offices, banks, commercial areas, presentation of Alba Iulia, main tourist sites, and cultural institutions and leisure and entertainment opportunities for kids, youths and elders.

The guide shall be accompanied by a map of the city that includes vicinities of La Recea Quarter

Participation in job fairs and in other activities where labour market mediation activities are developed

Indication and visiting Churches and Praying Houses where the La Recea Resettlement Site belongs to (Orthodox, Romano-Catholic, Greek-Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostals, Unitarians).

Post-moving stage

Accompany people (upon request, for elders or for individuals with special needs) – to get familiar with frequent routs: utilities bill payments, shopping, bank, postal office, park, church, etc.

Meetings with local authorities from Alba Iulia Information on communication between citizens and public institutions Information on maintaining public order, and on hazards and safety of city life Health Education Programme Information programme on public transport infrastructure, rules regarding public

transportation Information on Alba Health Services; meeting with family doctors with practices in La

Recea area Information regarding emergency situations Information and counselling on planning and managing family budget.

Permanent monitoring

Information, counselling, and support for the resettlement process – La Recea Office and Community Relations Department from Roşia Montană

Special notifications phone Social assistance and intervention depending on the challenges Occupational counselling Reporting towards and communication with local authorities on special situations.

Moreover, an “Information, Counselling and Support for the Resettlement process” Office has been established in Alba Iulia, La Recea Quarter. This office shall be operational for a period of at least one year after the last family has been moved into the site. Contacts: La Recea Office: Ionela Peter, Social and Occupational Counsellor 0730399007 Special notification phone line: Claudia Buruiană, sociologist, Manager Compliance with Resettlement Support Measures 0729399200 Community Relations – Roşia Montană: Legal issues: Ghorghe Beleiu, Manager of Title Clarifications Moves issues: Ion Cracea, engineer, Coordinator of Moves Unit Counsellors of Community Relations



Item no. 175

Stakeholder name Bobar Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Sat Corna, Nr. 689A

Question/ Comment

What jobs are going to be created, if the project starts?

Answer




Item no. 176

Stakeholder name Botar Horia

Stakeholder address Sat Corna, Com. Rosia Montana, Nr. 723

Question/ Comment

Future employment with RMGC More support for elders

Answer

1. By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP.



To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:


































standards on environmental protection. 2. More support for elders RMGC acknowledged the issue of elders from Roşia Montană area. To date, RMGC has supported elders through a series of programmes aimed at providing household support for elders and for individuals unable to do chores by them. RMGC intends to affirm itself as a responsible member of Roşia Montană community and once the project is permitted to develop these programmes under a new, modern form, in partnership with local authorities and community, as an Emergency Social Assistance Centre.






Item no. 177



Question/ Comment

Not all the locals in Corna have properties for sale. How will you proceed in their case?

Answer

We admit that the question above “not all the people from Corna have properties to be sold” is referring to properties that landlords do not intend to sell to RMGC. We would like to state that RMGC has approached the resettlement process as a voluntary process, and has limited its actions to guide the community towards resettlement (instead of relocation) and to communicate the resettlement benefits. RMGC observes the laws of the state regarding the ownership right, as well as with the principles prepared by international financial institutions for mining operations with a resettlement component and communities impacts. Essentially, it is recommended:

• Involuntary resettlement should be avoided. • If involuntary resettlement cannot be avoided, all individuals involved in this must be

fully and correctly compensated for their lost assets. • Involuntary resettlement should be conceived as an opportunity for improving the

living conditions of impacted people and achieved in this manner. • All people impacted by involuntary resettlement must be consulted and involved in

planning the resettlement so as to ensure that both minimization of adverse impacts and the benefits of resettlement are adequate and sustainable”

(IFC Manual for preparing Resettlement Action Plans)

- The decision to sell a property is a difficult decision for each family that is moving, even in the case of regular economic movements; on this RMGC is observing another major recommendation with respect to “provision of sufficient time to take the decision of resettling”.

- Resettlement must be approached as a process, in general. - RMGC considers as being very important to inform, consult and to have a permanent

dialogue with the community throughout each of the stages of this process. When the decision of implementing Resettlement and Relocation Action Plan was taken, RMGC consulted the community and took into account the result of these consultations. Most of the community from the area where the project is proposed to be developed has agreed within the first consultations that they do not oppose relocation/resettlement provided that this process is conducted in such a manner so as benefits would result for the impacted individuals, the community shall move to a better location and the company policies established for personnel recruitment together with other benefits (professional trainings, support for small business) shall consider with priority the project impact area. During the subsequent stages, the community raised several other complaints based on which several common principles have been reached, which have been considered within the process of continuous improvement of the system established for compensating properties and the company relation with the community.



Item no. 178



Question/ Comment

It is difficult to live with one million per month.

Answer

The development of the mining project shall have as a general effect the economic development of the operating area, increase of local population incomes, and eradication of poverty. Moreover, in the light of performance standards that are providing special measures for vulnerable people, RMGC together with authorities and local NGOs shall identify the most effective means for fighting against poverty: a centre for professional training and reorientation, micro-credit, as well as a centre for emergency social assistance.



Item no. 179

Stakeholder name Botar Petru


Question/ Comment

The industrial sites proposed to be constructed, in general, and especially in Corna

Answer

The studied area has 1650.88 ha, and it covers parts of the following villages: Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. The location of each objective is:

• processing plant will be located between Săliştei Valley and Roşia Montană Valley, mainly due to the short distance to Cîrnic and Cetate pits, but also due to the shorter distance to the tailings management facility which is going to be located in Corna Valley;

• Cetate and Cîrnic pits, will ensure the gold recovery from pits neighboring: • 2 waste dumps and one waste rock stockpile in the South-Eastern side of Cetate

dam, and one dump of inert waste located at the South of Cîrnic dump; • Jig and Orlea pits, are part of the second development phase, according to the

approved P.U.G., and they will ensure the ore mining within open cut pits; • Corna tailings management facility will be built in phases and it will be located on

Corna Valley, at South of the processing plant site. The tailings dam will first have the height of the rockfill dam of 78 m, and 185 m in the final phase. The tailings will be stored in the dam after detoxification and partial dewatered. The final elevation of the dam will reach approximately 840 m above the sea level and it is designed to contain a capacity of 250 Mt of treated tailings. The dam will ensure at in the beginning the water storage capacity which represents the volume needed to start the production;

• quarries are potential sources of rock needed to build the tailings dam, earthworks and concrete works. The geotechnical studies proved that Porcului Valley and Şulei site are the places where the future rock quarries are going to be developed. This rock is needed for constructions.

• topsoil stockpiles, will be four, and they will be locate in areas where the topography facilitates the development of a stable deposit, at West of Şulei quarry, South of the processing plant and South-East of the tailings dam;

• ARD pond of the pit and Cetate waste rock dump, which has the role of protection – will be located on the narrowest spot of Roşia Valley and will capture the ARD from Roşia Valley, including the seepage from 714 adit, from Cetate waste rock dumps, Cetate waste ore dump and from the waste rock dumps existing around Cetate and Cîrnic pits;

• the explosives magazine will be located adjacent to the access road to the tailings dam, at approx. 1 km South from the processing plant, within a relatively isolated area, far from the active operations and population, but with easy access for delivering the explosive materials;

• water catchment / diverting channels, to increase the safety and protection, with the role of:

• reducing the water volume which enters the tailings dam and collecting and distributing the clean water before it is pumped in the tailings dam. It will be located in the South of the tailings dam, for capturing and distributing the surface water downstream of the secondary containment dam;

• reducing the water volume which enters in the ARD pond, located along the Northern side of Roşia Valley, captures, within Roşia spring, the conventionally clean surface waters, which don’t have any contact with the mining areas.




The potential acid generating rock leakage from the tailings dumps around Cetate and Cîrnic pits will be captured by means of a discharge channel and transferred into the ARD pond;

• DJ742 detour is proposed according to the approved P.U.G: DJ 107 I (Bucium Sat) – industrial road, Roşia Poieni, new road for the access of the vehicles from DN 74. The road will be detoured towards the southern part of the hill point which runs along the South-Eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect with Roşia Poieni industrial road, its length being of 6.65 km. The road alternative which is going to be approved through the current P.U.Z., will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be occupied by the tailings management facility, this road being the only road of access between Roşia Poieni Mine and DN74 National Road, and DN74A;

• access road to the processing plant will be built along the left side of Roşia Valley, starting from DN74A national road, up to Gura Roşiei; a section of the road overlaps the existing railway which used to ensure the ore transport to Gura Roşiei;

• industrial roads for proper access of the trucks from the pits to the processing plant, tailings dumps and tailings dam.


Item no. 180



Question/ Comment

Employment opportunities dependant on competencies after pensioning

Answer




Item no. 181



Question/ Comment

Is the Corna area suitable for the dam?

Answer

Nine sites were assessed for the tailings dam location: on Tolăceşti Valley (3 sites), Abruzelului Valley (2 sites), Corna Valley (3 sites), Seliştea Valley (1 site), plus the alternative of using the existing tailings dam from Roşia Poieni. Comparative evaluation of the alternatives in relation to the environment impact proved that the best alternative for the tailings dam is the dam from Roşia Poieni, followed by Corna Valley site, upstream. Taking into consideration the relatively average costs of investment and operation, as well as the relatively low operation complexity, the results of the general hierarchy of the alternatives proved that the most favorable scoring was granted to the site from Corna Valley. Even though the Roşia Poieni option comes first regarding the environment and community impact, there is a small difference to the site from Corna Valley. The high operations costs and additional mining complexity of the tailings discharge pipe had a negative effect on the final hierarchy. The site from Corna Valley ensures both the capacity required during the life time of the mine, as well as a significant back up capacity for unforeseen situations. The advantage of the site is given by the short distance to the processing plant and pits, which determines the reduction of the Project’s footprint. Also, there must be mentioned that the processing tailings stored in the tailings dam will be first detoxified within the processing plant site. Details regarding the assessment of the alternatives related to the location of the tailings dam and selection of the optimum solution are described in Annex 5 of the Environmental Report.



Item no. 182


Stakeholder address Corna, Nr. 714

Question/ Comment

Industrial sites from Corna

Answer

The studied area has 1650.88 ha, and it covers parts of the following villages: Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. The location of each objective is:

• processing plant will be located between Săliştei Valley and Roşia Montană Valley, mainly due to the short distance to Cîrnic and Cetate pits, but also due to the shorter distance to the tailings management facility which is going to be located in Corna Valley;

• Cetate and Cîrnic pits, will ensure the gold recovery from pits neighboring: • 2 waste dumps and one waste rock stockpile in the South-Eastern side of Cetate

dam, and one dump of inert waste located at the South of Cîrnic dump; • Jig and Orlea pits, are part of the second development phase, according to the

approved P.U.G., and they will ensure the ore mining within open cut pits; • Corna tailings management facility will be built in phases and it will be located on

Corna Valley, at South of the processing plant site. The tailings dam will first have the height of the rockfill dam of 78 m, and 185 m in the final phase. The tailings will be stored in the dam after detoxification and partial dewatered. The final elevation of the dam will reach approximately 840 m above the sea level and it is designed to contain a capacity of 250 Mt of treated tailings. The dam will ensure at in the beginning the water storage capacity which represents the volume needed to start the production;

• quarries are potential sources of rock needed to build the tailings dam, earthworks and concrete works. The geotechnical studies proved that Porcului Valley and Şulei site are the places where the future rock quarries are going to be developed. This rock is needed for constructions.

• topsoil stockpiles, will be four, and they will be locate in areas where the topography facilitates the development of a stable deposit, at West of Şulei quarry, South of the processing plant and South-East of the tailings dam;

• ARD pond of the pit and Cetate waste rock dump, which has the role of protection – will be located on the narrowest spot of Roşia Valley and will capture the ARD from Roşia Valley, including the seepage from 714 adit, from Cetate waste rock dumps, Cetate waste ore dump and from the waste rock dumps existing around Cetate and Cîrnic pits;

• the explosives magazine will be located adjacent to the access road to the tailings dam, at approx. 1 km South from the processing plant, within a relatively isolated area, far from the active operations and population, but with easy access for delivering the explosive materials;

• water catchment / diverting channels, to increase the safety and protection, with the role of:

• reducing the water volume which enters the tailings dam and collecting and distributing the clean water before it is pumped in the tailings dam. It will be located in the South of the tailings dam, for capturing and distributing the surface water downstream of the secondary containment dam;

• reducing the water volume which enters in the ARD pond, located along the Northern side of Roşia Valley, captures, within Roşia spring, the conventionally clean surface waters, which don’t have any contact with the mining areas.




The potential acid generating rock leakage from the tailings dumps around Cetate and Cîrnic pits will be captured by means of a discharge channel and transferred into the ARD pond;

• DJ742 detour is proposed according to the approved P.U.G: DJ 107 I (Bucium Sat) – industrial road, Roşia Poieni, new road for the access of the vehicles from DN 74. The road will be detoured towards the southern part of the hill point which runs along the South-Eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect with Roşia Poieni industrial road, its length being of 6.65 km. The road alternative which is going to be approved through the current P.U.Z., will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be occupied by the tailings management facility, this road being the only road of access between Roşia Poieni Mine and DN74 National Road, and DN74A;

• access road to the processing plant will be built along the left side of Roşia Valley, starting from DN74A national road, up to Gura Roşiei; a section of the road overlaps the existing railway which used to ensure the ore transport to Gura Roşiei;

• industrial roads for proper access of the trucks from the pits to the processing plant, tailings dumps and tailings dam.


Item no. 183



Question/ Comment

Employment opportunities after pensioning

Answer




Item no. 184



Question/ Comment

Is Corna the correct location for the construction of the dam?

Answer

Nine sites were assessed for the tailings dam location: on Tolăceşti Valley (3 sites), Abruzelului Valley (2 sites), Corna Valley (3 sites), Seliştea Valley (1 site), plus the alternative of using the existing tailings dam from Roşia Poieni. Comparative evaluation of the alternatives in relation to the environment impact proved that the best alternative for the tailings dam is the dam from Roşia Poieni, followed by Corna Valley site, upstream. Taking into consideration the relatively average costs of investment and operation, as well as the relatively low operation complexity, the results of the general hierarchy of the alternatives proved that the most favorable scoring was granted to the site from Corna Valley. Even though the Roşia Poieni option comes first regarding the environment and community impact, there is a small difference to the site from Corna Valley. The high operations costs and additional mining complexity of the tailings discharge pipe had a negative effect on the final hierarchy. The site from Corna Valley ensures both the capacity required during the life time of the mine, as well as a significant back up capacity for unforeseen situations. The advantage of the site is given by the short distance to the processing plant and pits, which determines the reduction of the Project’s footprint. Also, there must be mentioned that the processing tailings stored in the tailings dam will be first detoxified within the processing plant site. Details regarding the assessment of the alternatives related to the location of the tailings dam and selection of the optimum solution are described in Annex 5 of the Environmental Report.



Item no. 185

Stakeholder name Lamba Elisabeta

Stakeholder address Sat Corna , Nr. 679C

Question/ Comment

Isn't "Ziarul de Apuseni" been distributed anymore in the village? Because I did not receive the last issues. - Another problem is the transport of some items from a house sold to the company to my house. - During negotiations I was promised on behalf of the company that the items will be transported. - is there any point in investing in our houses because they are deteriorating and we haven't sold them?

Answer

We forwarded your problem to the Communications’ Department, which, meanwhile, it already solved it.



Item no. 186


Stakeholder address Sat Corna , Nr. 679C

Question/ Comment

I used to have a good opinion with respect to the company - I changed it because my son did not receive any support from the company during his studies and no job opportunity in due time

Answer




Item no. 187

Stakeholder name Botar Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Corna, Nr. 689A

Question/ Comment

On the TMF area Protected Areas that will remain in Corna

Answer

1. Corna Tailings Management Facility shall be built on stages and shall be located in Corna Valley, south of plant site. The Tailings Management Facility shall initially have a 78m heigh rock-filled dam, and in the end the final height shall be 185m. The process tailings shall be stored detoxified and dehydrated in the tailings management facility. The final rise of the dam shall reach 840m above sea level and is designed to store 250Mt of treated tailings. Initially, the Tailings Management Facility shall ensure only a storage capacity of water that is corresponds to the water volume required for production startup. The dam is designed to withstand an 8 Richter degrees earthquake, an event never recorded by the known history on the Romanian territory and it is difficult to imagine the mechanism leading to its occurrence in the future. Some of the main designing elements contributing to the increase of the dam safety are as follows:

• the storage elevation of the water volume corresponds to 2 PMF events; • during each rise of the dam, a spillway shall be constructed to discharged in a controlled

manner the excess water resulting after an exceptional event. Therefore, the erosion of downstream slopes of the dam is avoided;

• starter dam, built with rockfill, with a lined core, slopes of 2O:1V at the downstream slope and 1.75O:1V at the upstream slope;

• Corna Dam (main dam), built with rockfill through centreline raise, with slopes of 3O:1V for downstream slope

• a drainage system at the base of the tailings deposit and a filters area between tailings and rockfill so as to allow decrease of the humidity and stabilization of deposited material;

• a monitoring system installed on the dam and in its close vicinity, aimed at providing at early stages the signals on potential unstable situations, excessive increase of the phreatic levels within dam body, excessive rais of water volume stored in the Tailings Management Faciltiy;

• implementation of a thorough programme of Quality Assurance during dam construction stages.

During operations period, the Tailings Management Facility shall be surrounded by a fence crossing the lands where the facility boundary contacts the industrial area boundary. The fence is constructed from 2m concrete pillars with 5 parallel barbed wire rows and 2 crossed rows. Warning signs are posted at every 50m. Accidents prevention requires suitable endowments to exist: rescue belts, alpinism ropes, boats that cannot flip over, etc, and, at the same time, specific instruction for every facility are to be put in place upon start-up. The dam of the Tailings Management Facility shall be under permanent watch and guard based on a strict schedule.



The watch and security system will require the approval of the County Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) 2. 41 buildings have been classified as historic monuments and included on the List of Historic Monuments published in the Official Gazette no. 646 bis of 16.07.2004, the buildings being located within Roşia Montană territory, i.e. two churches and 39 houses (code L.M.I. 2004: AB-II-m-B-00269, and then from AB-II-m-B-00271 to AB-II-m-B-00311). At the same time, the Historic Centre of Roşia Montană is also classified and included on the List of Historic Monuments from 2004, stipulating location details “Village Fair”, Square, Berg Quarter, Brazilor Street and the upstream area of Square towards lakes (code AB-II-s-B-00270), all these being framed in the B category group, i.e. historic monuments of local interest. Based on legal provisions, RMGC initiated in 2001 by contracting certified companies the preparation of the specific urbanism documents, i.e. the General Urbanism Plan and the Zonal Urbanism Plan. The endorsements establishing the Roşia Montană Historic Centre Protected Area have been issued by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs during 2002 (endorsement no. 61/14.02.2002 and no. 178/20.06.2002) as part of the permitting procedure of urbanism documentations. Based on these endorsements, Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs asked for the preparation of the Zonal Urbanism Plan for Roşia Montană Historic Centre. Our proposal on how this area should look like has bee pictured in the Environmental Impact Study (vol. 33), Plan M – Cultural Heritage Management Plan, IInd part – Management Plan for Historical Monuments and Protected Zones from Roşia Montană, exhibit 6. The area of this zone has been increased from 52 ha to 130 ha and includes 35 of the 41 historic monument houses. With respect to the patrimony values located within the future industrial development area, i.e. 6 historic monument buildings and 4 archaeological sites –Orlea Zone (code LMI AB-I-m-A-00065.01, AB-I-m-A-00065.02), Carpeni Zone (AB-I-m-A-00065.03), the Roman funerary enclosure from “Hop-Găuri” Zone(AB-I-m-A-00065.04) and the Roman Galleries from Cârnic Massif, “Piatra Corbului” point. We would like to underline the fact that none of the historic monument buildings existing within the proposed project area shall be impacted in an adverse manner, and all 41 historic monument buildings shall be included in an ample rehabilitation and restoration programme. The Roşia Montană Protected Area shall have an area of over 130ha. It will include architectural values of this locality (restored and developed), organized as a mining museum with geologic, archaeological, ethnographical (with an open air exhibit), industrial patrimony exhibits and a major underground component located around Cătălina Monuleşti Gallery. The company intends to promote the development of traditional tourism (inns, small bars) in this part of the locality. The historic lakes: Tăul Mare, Tăul Brazi and Tăul Anghel are located in the east and south-eastern part of old centre. Modern (entertainment) tourism may be developed here. All company proposals on this must be validated in the first place by the local community, as well as by the local authorities. A major component of this protected area is represented by several hundred houses present within this perimeter. These are the things that company intends to protect and promote and that is why special measures are to be put in place both within Roşia Montană Historic Centre (restoration-consolidation-preservation) and within Industrial Perimeter (using special blasting procedures, creation of a buffer zone between the two perimeters, continuous monitoring of vibrations and tailoring the blasting procedures to meet the waves propagation velocity etc.). To conclude, 4 protected areas are established, Roşia Montană Historic Centre (comprising 35 historic monument buildings, Cătălina Monuleşti gallery), the archaeological reservation from Carpeni Hill (to include Păru Carpeni mining sector), Roman Funerary Enclosure from Tăul Găuri and mining vestiges of open cast mining operations developed within Piatra Corbului area, none of these monuments is located in Corna.



Item no. 188

Stakeholder name Botar Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Corna, Nr. 689A

Question/ Comment

About pensioners that may still work for your company

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 189



Question/ Comment

Employment opportunities or anticipated pensioning

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements.



Item no. 190



Question/ Comment

What are you going to do with locals who do not have a property to sale?

Answer

The process of land acquisitions is developed based on the observance of the law and of the property right; moreover, the decision to sell the property and to start a new life in a new house (sometime a new location) is a difficult situation. For these reasons, RMGC approached with all the responsibility this issue, ensuring sufficient time to study all options and to take an informed decision. The impacted families received support before and after the sell of the property located within project area. The acquisition of the 794 households has been done based on the free will to purchase of the buyer and the free will to sell of the seller. When the properties acquisition re-starts, RMGC shall observe the same principles to ensure an equal treatment for all landlords. Moreover, we would like to have a permanent dialogue with all families existing within project development area to inform and consult them on the all options and benefits of the project and to learn their concerns. The method selected for establishing the values of Roşia Montană properties fully meets the World Bank recommendations and is based on the “replacement value” in the same conditions. For this aim, the replacement value has been established based on a real estate market assessment conducted within 14 localities on a 250Km radius around Roşia Montană Commune, an average being established for the observed replacement costs. Cluj is the first city on the list of the localities considered, although is located within the respective radius. If one expects the replacement value to be reported to the Cluj real estate market then it would have no sense in establishing an average. Following the same logic, it wouldn’t be equitable and fair to establish the replacement value based on the prices recorded in the last city in the regional classification, i.e. Zlatna. It was considered that the most correct method of establishing the “replacement value” is to make an average of the prices recorded on the 14 markets considered. The current prices for different categories of houses and land positions have been established by considering the prices in Alba Iulia. During the last 6 months, the prices have been reviewed twice depending on the results of the above mentioned assessment.



Item no. 191



Question/ Comment

How can one live with one million per month?

Answer

The development of the mining project shall have as a general effect the economic development of the operating area, increase of local population incomes, and eradication of poverty. Moreover, in the light of performance standards that are providing special measures for vulnerable people, RMGC together with authorities and local NGOs shall identify the most effective means for fighting against poverty: a centre for professional training and reorientation, micro-credit, as well as a centre for emergency social assistance.



Item no. 192


Stakeholder address Sat Corna, Nr. 679C

Question/ Comment

Distribution of "Ziarul de Apuseni" newspaper within the village, reestablishment of the dialogue with the Community Relations Department

Answer

1. "Ziarul de Apuseni" newspaper is distributed free of charge within Roşia Montană commune and on a broader area within Apuseni Mountains area. 2. Community Relations Department is using the following instruments for the dialogue with the community from the area proposed for the development of the mining project:

• The Gazette (a paper through which the public meetings are announced, together with information on changes occurred in property compensations)

• Frequent meetings with the community summoned either by the company or by members of the community

• Constant interactions with each family so as to discuss people opinions and concerns • Daily visits of the community to the Community Relations Department to informal

discussions and information on different topics, as follows: rules and procedures, legal counselling, information on the mining project, if properties are eligible so as to be acquired by the company, support for moving out and relocation, etc.

• Meetings of the company’s management and the members of the community, upon request.

• Community Complaints Office • Site visits at the resettlement location, either individual upon a family’s request or with

the entire community Contacts from Community Relations Department: Elena Lorincz: Properties Eligibility Manager, 0729399101 Gheorghe Beleiu Property Titles and Legal Clarifications Manager 0729399099 Claudia Buruiana Manager of Compliance with International Standards of Responsibility regarding Resettlement 0729399200



Item no. 193

Stakeholder name Palade Constantin

Stakeholder address Roşia Montană, Bălmoşeşti, Nr. 614

Question/ Comment

What are the main advantages for the locals within Project's impact area? How many tonnes of gold and how many of silver will be mined at Rosia Montana?

Answer

1.By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Rosia Montana locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Rosia Montana Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The



diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:






• Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional levels;

• US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits, profit taxes, royalties and other duties and taxes due toward local, regional and national authorities of Romania;

• US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania

RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:





• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all




details related to these initiatives. Human Capital Includes: health and education:




reproduction health, nutrition and lifestyle, etc. • Partnerships with educational organizations and NGOs on improvement of

educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).


• Efforts for the development and promotion of cultural heritage in Rosia Montana both for locals and for tourism purposes – RMGC is a partner in the Rosia Montana Cultural Heritage Partnership ([email protected]);

• Education opportunities for adults and improvement of their skills through training programmes, educational funds and scholarships, in order to increase the chances to secure a job both directly with RMGC and indirectly – RMGC is a partner in the Rosia Montana Professional and Vocational Training Programme;

• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Rosia Montana – RMGC is a partner in the Rosia Montana Good Neighbour Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRosia ([email protected]);




• Improvement of environmental conditions shall increase life quality at Rosia Montana;

• Training and support provided for the integration of environment quality issues into the business plans;

• Awareness campaigns on having environmental protection measures included in economic activities;

• Imposing environmental standards when granting loans through micro-financing, to include monitoring of environmental protection measures;

• Business Conduct Code through which all RMP suppliers are required to observe RMGC standards on environmental protection

2. During 1997 – 2006 an ore deposit of 215 million t of ore has been delineated with an average recovery content of 1.46 g/t gold and 6.9 g/t silver and a total content of 314.11 t Au and 1480.36 t Ag in situ.






Item no. 194

Stakeholder name Petruta Traian

Stakeholder address Abrud, Aleea Florilor, Nr. 14, Ap. 40 , Sc. 2, Bl. T

Question/ Comment

Future employment Better conditions for young people

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development



Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:




















educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an




educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).




• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Roşia Montană – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbour Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRoşia ([email protected]);













Item no. 195



Question/ Comment

What are your priorities when hiring?

Answer




Item no. 196



Question/ Comment

Many have been promised, but nothing was kept.

Answer The Company complies with its commitments.



Item no. 197

Stakeholder name Botar Raluca


Question/ Comment

Employment for individuals with college studies and other employment opportunities

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. 2. During the 16 years of operations, the estimate is that Rosia Montana Project will require 881 direct jobs. It is expected that the majority of these jobs is going to be occupied by residents of the impact area of the Project. Please see below a brief listing of the fields and related jobs. Management:

• General Manager • Technical Director • Mine Manager • Operations Manager • Administration assistants

Processing plant / Tailings dam

• Metallurgist • Plant shift supervisor • Metallurgy and laboratory technicians • Sundry multi-skilled labour

- Control room - Crushing - Grinding - CIL - Gold room - Tailings - Reagents - Water treatment plant

• Chemistry laboratory - Chemist - Assayers




- Samplers (workers) Mining activities

• Shift supervisors • Drilling and blasting foremen • Head of mining • Dispatch operators • Chiefs of Training • Head of statistic cost control • Loading operators • Truck drivers • Operators of additional equipment • Drilling operators

Maintenance

• Maintenance foreman • Electrical engineers • Engine drivers • Multi-functional equipment technicians • Maintenance planners • Electricians • Mechanics • Welders • Equipment technicians • Carpenters • Clerk

Technical services

• Geologists • Mining engineers • Mining planners • Geo-technical engineers • Technician • Dispatch engineer • Surveyors

Administration and support services

• Finance / accounting / IT • Supply (purchasing, plan, warehouse) • Human resources • MPMS (environment, occupational health and safety) • Patrimony (archaeologist, specialist, workers) • Community relations • Legal department • Various contract works, such as cleaning, security, transportation, etc.


Item no. 198

Stakeholder name Racz Porondy Claudiu


Question/ Comment

Potential future jobs, preferable as professional driver or any other job so as to be much closer to home

Answer

1. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration,



provided by: • An average number of 2337 jobs during construction for a period of two years, most

of them being filled by local labour force; • 881 jobs during operational stage for a period of 16 years, most of them being filled

by local labour force; • 270 jobs during closure stage for a period of 5-7 years, most of them being filled by

local labour force; • Approx. 6560 indirect jobs during construction stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 5246 indirect jobs during operational stage generated at local and regional

levels; • Approx. 1811 indirect jobs during closure stage generated at local and regional

levels; • US$1.75 billion, representing the share of Romanian Government fro the profits,

profit taxes, royalties and other duties and taxes due toward local, regional and national authorities of Romania;





























2. During the 16 years of operation, it has bee estimated that Rosia Montana Project requires over 600 direct jobs. It is expected that the majority of these jobs will be occupied by locals from the project’s area. The fields and the jobs are presented here briefly. Management:

• Managing Director • Technical Director • Extraction Director • Processing Director • Administrative assistants

Processing Plant / Process tailings

• Plant metallurgist • Plant Shift Chief • Metallurgical and laboratory Technicians • Various multi-skilled workers

- Control chamber - Crushing - Grinding - CIL - Gold chamber - Process tailings - Reagents - Water treatment plant







• Chemistry Laboratory - Chemist - Analysts - Sample preparation (workers)

Extraction activities

• Shift foremen • Drillings and blasting foremen • Mining chiefs • Dispatching Operators • Training chiefs • Chiefs of the statistic control of costs • Loading operators • Heavy duty truck drivers • Auxiliary equipment operators • Drillings operators

Maintenance

• Maintenance foreman • Electrician Engineer • Machinists • Multifunctional equipment technicians • Maintenance planners • Electricians • Mechanics • Welders • Instrument Technicians • Carpenters • Clerks

Technical services

• Geologists • Mining engineers • Extraction planners • Geotechnical engineers • Technicians • Dispatching engineer • Topography surveyers

Administrative and auxiliary

• Financial / accountant / IT • Procurement (acquisitions, plan, storage rooms) • Human resources • MPMS (environment, occupational health and safety) • Patrimony (archaeologist, expert, workers) • Community relations • Legal • Different contracts for cleaning, security, transport services and so on.


Item no. 199

Stakeholder name Racz Porondy Claudiu


Question/ Comment

Because w e have sold our property, we would like to learn how is RMGC going to observe the Purchase/Sale Agreement

Answer

RMGC shall meet all of its commitments stipulated under the sale-purchase agreement.



Item no. 200

Stakeholder name Petruţa Traian

Stakeholder address Abrud, Aleea Florilor, Bl. T, Sc. 2, Nr. 14, Ap. 40

Question/ Comment

Jobs

Answer
























educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth




Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro). Social Capital Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage:
















Item no. 201

Stakeholder name Petruţa Traian

Stakeholder address Abrud, Aleea Florilor, Bl. T, Sc. 2, Nr. 14, Ap. 40

Question/ Comment

There are many young people who worked for Gold and now are unemployed.

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Rosia Montana locals. Everyone can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 202

Stakeholder name Todea Marius Vasile

Stakeholder address Câmpeni , Str. Moţilor, Nr. 63

Question/ Comment

I would like to know if professional drivers positions are available for the future RMGC construction site

Answer

Yes, there will be job vacanties for truck drivers. During the 16 years of operations, the estimate is that Rosia Montana Project will require 881 direct jobs. It is expected that the majority of these jobs is going to be occupied by residents of the impact area of the Project. Please see below a brief listing of the fields and related jobs. Management:

• General Manager • Technical Director • Mine Manager • Operations Manager • Administration assistants


• Metallurgist • Plant shift supervisor • Metallurgy and laboratory technicians • Sundry multi-skilled labour


• Chemistry laboratory - Chemist - Assayers - Samplers (workers)

Mining activities

• Shift supervisors • Drilling and blasting foremen • Head of mining • Dispatch operators • Chiefs of Training • Head of statistic cost control • Loading operators • Truck drivers • Operators of additional equipment • Drilling operators

Maintenance




• Maintenance foreman • Electrical engineers • Engine drivers • Multi-functional equipment technicians • Maintenance planners • Electricians • Mechanics • Welders • Equipment technicians • Carpenters • Clerk

Technical services

• Geologists • Mining engineers • Mining planners • Geo-technical engineers • Technician • Dispatch engineer • Surveyors


• Finance / accounting / IT • Supply (purchasing, plan, warehouse) • Human resources • MPMS (environment, occupational health and safety) • Patrimony (archaeologist, specialist, workers) • Community relations • Legal department • Various contract works, such as cleaning, security, transportation, etc.


Item no. 203

Stakeholder name Todea Marius Vasile

Stakeholder address Câmpeni , Str. Moţilor, Nr. 63

Question/ Comment

Job opportunities for people living in the impact area

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Rosia Montana Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development.























educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for




instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).

















Item no. 204

Stakeholder name Boia Ioan

Stakeholder address Rosia Montana, Str. Tarina, Nr. 1250A

Question/ Comment

General information on the Project

Answer

The exploration works conducted at Roşia Montană rank the deposit as having large dimension, though of disseminated mineralization, with low content of gold and silver. According to the type of deposit, and aiming for efficient recovery, RMGC initiates “ Roşia Montană Project” through which it proposes open cut pit mining, traditional haulage and processing – grinding, leaching, storage of the process tailings on stockpiles and the storage of detoxified and, partial, dewatered process tailing, on the tailings dam. The Project provides modern open pit mining technologies which comprise the following phases: drilling, blasting (phasing of millisecond delays) and the use of hydraulic loaders and big capacity haulage trucks. We identified 4 key areas where the pit mining is viable, namely Cetate, Cîrnic (including Cîrnicel, excluding the area of Piatra Corbului), Jig and Orlea. An average rate of ore processing was established at 13 million t/year for 16 years. The opening of the pits is done is phases, according to economic criteria and the development strategy of Rosia Montana town, as per the provisions of the PUG (General Urbanism Plan). The preparation of the area for mining will start with the transport (removal) of the wood material, the vegetation, and the topsoil will be removed and stored in 4 topsoil stockpiles. The ecological reconstruction works will start as early as the operations phase; the topsoil will be used for rehabilitating the area. Taking into consideration the economic criteria, the mining will start in Carnic and Cetate massifs. The site of the industrial objectives of the Rosia Montana Project, as established by the feasibility study, includes the entire technological flow, pits, tailings dumps, processing plant, tailings dam. The processing plant proposed as integrant part of the study, processes the ore from the pits up to the phase of doré. The plant site is near the gold and silver deposit and tailings dam. The average capacity of the processing plant, during the life of the mine, is approximately 2500 t/h. The main phases of the technological process are:

• ore mining through specific open pit mining methods; • haulage of the ore to the processing plant by means of high capacity trucks; • one-stage ore crushing using a gyratory crusher; • stock-piling of the crushed ore; • the crushed ore is grounded using a SAG mill followed by two ball-mills aligned in

parallel; • the leaching of the ore starts from the grinding circuit; • the absorption of the gold and silver on the active carbon, followed by the separation

of the loaded carbon; • the elution of the gold and silver from the active carbon within pressure tanks;




• electrowinning for recovering the gold and silver detached off the active carbon, as a mixture with precious metals and its melting for producing the dore alloy bullions;

• thickening of slurry; • detoxification of the processing tailings in what concerns the heavy metals and

cyanide, before they leave the safety area of the processing plant; • storage of the detoxified tailings; • recovery of the water from the tailings dam to be use for recycling and reuse.

The control of the production process is ensured through a computerized modern system which provides the management of most control processes, data gathering and start/stop sequences of the phases. The data recorded by the control system and other analysis will be transferred, through automatic means, into the registration system. The operation of the processing plant involves the development of services and infrastructure: roads, power lines, water supply, sewerage, water treatment plant, administration buildings, mine infrastructure and related services – storage of the fuel and explosives. The operation of Rosia Montana Project will generate approximately 13 million tones of tailings / annum for approximately 16 years, accrued to approx. 215 million tons of treated tailings. The proposed mining and processing works require the construction and operation of a tailings management facility, which will be located in Corna Valley, at South of the plant site. The selection of the site was done given consideration to all technical, social, economic and environment aspects. All blocks of land available around the area of the pits were assessed through specific studies. The sites considered for “Waste generated from the site mobilization and mining works” are presented on the regulations drawing, including the tailings dam on Corna Valley, the waste dump and Cetate waste rock dump, tailings dump and Carnic inert waste dump, 4 stockpiles of topsoil which will be used to rehabilitate the pits, tailings dumps, roads and other technological objectives needed during the ecological reconstruction phase.


Item no. 205

Stakeholder name Boia Ioan

Stakeholder address Rosia Montana, Str. Tarina, Nr. 1250A

Question/ Comment

Initiation of Project activity, advocacy for local and county public opinion

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issuance of the environment permit for Roşia Montană Project, to Alba Environment Protection Agency, on December the 14th, 2004. The documentation submitted by the Titleholder consisted of: the technical sheet, the Annex to the Urbanism Certificate, and the Presentation Memorandum of the Project, which was posted on the web site of the Ministry commencing with December the 20th, 2004. Given the fact that the Project is subject to the provisions of the Espoo Convention regarding the environment impact assessment within transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through Letter no. 4596 of December 21st, 2004, to send notifications to the likely impacted countries: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed its participation to the impact assessment procedure of Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Hungary has also sent a preliminary proposal regarding the requirements for the content of the EIA Report for Roşia Montană Project. Bulgaria replied to the notification, saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context. Moldova Republic replied to the notification saying that it won’t participate to the impact assessment procedure for Roşia Montană Project within transboundary context, but it asked for the EIA Report, as soon as it will be completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia didn’t submit a formal response. In April, the 14th 2005, the RMP site was visited by representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Sibiu Regional Environment Protection Agency, Alba Environment Protection Agency and the Titleholder. The site visit was concluded with a report and followed by filling out the Check List according to the legislation in force. In May, the 10th 2005, there was the Technical Analysis Committee (TAC) at central level for ranking and defining the assessment domain. The TAC (formed by representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Ministry of European Integration, Ministry of Cultures and Cults, National Agency for Mineral Resources, National Administration of Romanian Waters) established the issues which need to be addressed within the EIA Report. In addition to the issues identified by the Romanian Institutions represented within this Committee, RMGC addressed the issues requested by the Environment Authorities from Hungary. The EIA Report was issued by certified entities based on the Compliance list for defining the assessment domain, the additional questions addressed by the TAC institutions and the proposals of the likely impacted countries, in accordance with the legislation in force.




The EIA Report was subject to public debates during July the 24th 2006, to August the 25th, 2006, in 14 different towns from Romania (Rosia Montana, Abrud, Câmpeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Brad, Cluj-Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad);



In January the 31st, 2007, the Ministry of Environment transmitted to the Project’s Titleholder, SC Rosia Montana Gold Corporation SA, the Form comprising the observations and the comments received from the stakeholders during the public debate phase. In May the 4th, 2007, The Project’s titleholder submitted its response to the Ministry of Environment in relation to the observations and comments addressed by the stakeholders. This response represents the Annex to the EIA Report; The Ministry of Environment forwarded the Annex, in electronic format – CD – to the stakeholders which addressed the observations and comments. The Technical Analysis Committee convened at central level in June the 26th 2007, July the 10th 2007, July the 19th 2007 and August the 9th 2007. 4 Chapters of the EIA Report were reviewed, namely:

Chapter 1 – General provisions Chapter 2 – Technological processes Chapter 3 - Waste Chapter 4 – Potential environment impact, including the transboundary impact, and


In September the 12th 2007, the Ministry of Environment suspended the EIA review procedure due to the cancellation of the Urbanism Certificate no. 105 / 2007. RMGC challenged the decision of having the environment integrated permitting procedure suspended, suing the Ministry of Environment and its representatives through the Court Introductory Application which forms the Scope of the file no. 8037/2/2007 pending with the Appeal Court of Bucharest – department of Administrative and Fiscal Litigation, ongoing. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. follows all the necessary requirements to have this procedure recommenced, awaiting for the continuation of the review on the EIA Report by the TAC which has to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, according to the law. Consequently, the gold ore mining is mainly dependent on the status of the Project’s permitting and especially on obtaining the environmental permit.


Item no. 206

Stakeholder name Iancu Oligia

Stakeholder address Bucium Poieni

Question/ Comment

She wants the project to start so as to have jobs for the young people.

Answer









• Programmes developed for assisting vulnerable individuals and groups and for consolidating social network, especially in Rosia Montana – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Good Neighbour Programme managed by a local NGO, ProRoşia ([email protected]);













Item no. 207

Stakeholder name Crainic Stefan Dorin

Stakeholder address Bucium Sasa, Nr. 24

Question/ Comment

He wants the project to start so as to have jobs for the young people.

Answer













• Improvement of environmental conditions shall increase life quality at Roşia Montană;









Item no. 208

Stakeholder name David Eugenia

Stakeholder address Bucium Sasa

Question/ Comment


Answer




Item no. 209

Stakeholder name Marc Andrei

Stakeholder address Abrud

Question/ Comment


Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development.



Item no. 210

Stakeholder name Roman Elena


Question/ Comment


Answer




Item no. 211

Stakeholder name Bodea Viorel

Stakeholder address Bucium Sat, Nr. 186A

Question/ Comment

When is RMGC coming to Bucium?

Answer

RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.



Item no. 212

Stakeholder name Bodea Viorel

Stakeholder address Bucium Sat, Nr. 186A

Question/ Comment

They want the RMGC Project to start for the jobs.

Answer




Item no. 213

Stakeholder name Cozma Elena

Stakeholder address Bucium Sat, Nr. 155

Question/ Comment

I support RMGC's Project

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Rosia Montana Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development



Item no. 214

Stakeholder name Tuhut Liviu

Stakeholder address Bucium Sat, Nr. 172

Question/ Comment

How many villages of Bucium are impacted? Which are the effects of cyanide on a human living and on the environment, and is there any effects? On what action radius are the areas from the dam being resettled? And how many people are being moved?

Answer

1. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Amendment of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Rosia Montana Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Rosia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Roşia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of: - 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4% 2. The most efficient and economic process for extracting gold and silver from ores like the one existing in Rosia Montana is based on the full cyanide leaching of the mining mass. There are several examples in the world of similar ores that require the application of the cyanide leaching technology in order to economically extract the precious metals. The implementation of the concentration through cyanide leaching in order to recover gold and silver from Roşia Montană gold and silver ore deposit is supported by a detailed testing programme conducted by AMMTEC Limited and AMDEL Limited. The testwork has been planned and supervised by GRD MINPROC Limited, and subsequently the conclusions of the testing programme have been verified and reconfirmed by S.N.C. LAVALIN and AUSENCO. The best practices applied at international and European level have been considered in preparing the cyanide leaching technology for Rosia Montana ore deposit. The technology for the recovery of metals by applying cyanide leaching through the CIL procedure is BAT (Best Available Techniques – BAT) (according to Chpt. 3.1.6.2.2 and Chpt. 5.2 of BREF Guide [1] UE Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities from March 2004). The cyanide shall be delivered as solid, in ISO tanks specially designed and built. Cyanide shall be dissolved directly in the transport tank in an alkaline solution resulted and re-circulated from a mixture tank. The mixture tank is designed to host the entire capacity of a transport tank. After the contents of a tank are fully dissolved, the cyanide solution shall be transferred from the mixture tank in a high capacity storage tank. The fine grinded ore consisting of the fraction resulted at the overflow of hydro-cyclones of ball mils is transferred towards the sink of the pump supplying CIL circuit where is mixed with cyanide and suspended slaked lime, required to regulate the value of the pH. Active carbon is added in the CIL tanks to support the leaching process and the adsorption of dissolved metals. The slurry is undergoing a leaching process in two parallel batteries of 7 CIL tanks, which are provided with agitators. The dimensions of one CIL tank will be D = 18 m x H = 20 m. These tanks have these dimensions so as to provide a sufficient contact time between cyanide solution and, grinded ore and the active carbon. Depending on the needs, sodium cyanide solution is added in no2 and 4 CIL tanks so as to maintain the necessary cyanide concentration within the



circuit. The slurry passes the hydro-gravitational cyanide leaching circuit and the carbon advances continuously against the slurry flow with the help of vertical pumps. The advancement time from one tank to another is regulated so as to ensure a gold and silver load onto the carbon raging between 7,000 to 8,000 g/t. The slurry is mixed with flocculants in the supply basin of the tailings thickener; the flocculants facilitate the settlement of solid fraction. The tailings thickener ensures the increase of solid content in the sediment and also the formation of a supernatant relatively cleared. The supernatant discharged from the tailings thickener shall be directed towards grinding circuit for reuse and to recuperate cyanide. The thickened tailings are pumped towards the cyanide detoxification circuit, based on the SO2/air procedure, where WAD Cyanide concentration shall decrease below the limits accepted by Romanian legislation and by the European Union Directive. The Management of the technological tailings and the detoxification technology are BAT techniques, according to Chpts. 3.1.6.3, 3.1.6.3.2 and 4.3.11.8 (EU Guide, Document on BAT for Management ... in Mining Activities of March 2004). The detoxified tailings shall be pumped towards the tailings management facility. The cyanide used during processing shall be handled/stored in full compliance with the EU standards and with the provisions of International Cyanide Management Code of Cyanide (ICMC- www.cyanidecode.org ), safely kept within plant site in order to prevent any potential leakage. Cyanide and its compounds shall be subjected to the INCO detoxification procedure considered to be the Best Available Technique (BAT), in accordance with BREF document and the tailings shall be discharged in the Tailings Management Facility in accordance with Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 on the management of waste from extractive industries, which incorporates the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE referring to mining industry waste. Most of the cyanide shall be recovered within the plant. Detoxified tailings are the only source of process waste water existing in the Project. The concentrations of the residual cyanide from the tailings slurry will meet the provisions of EU Directive 2006/21/CE on mining wastes that stipulates for a maximum value of 10 ppm CNWAD (weak acid dissociable). The modelling of the predicted concentrations at the Tailings Management Facility showed that the treated tailings slurry is expected to contain 2 to 7 ppm WAD Cyanides. Through a subsequent degradation, these concentrations shall decrease below the values provided for the standards of surface waters (0.1 mg/l) within 1 to 3 years following the closure. A collateral effect of this treatment is also the removal of many of the metals that may appear in the flow of the technologic used waters. After decant, the water is reused in the process; within the Tailings Management Facility, during settlement the following process occur: natural degradation/decomposition of cyanides, hydrolyse, volatilization, photo-oxidation, bio-oxidation, complexation/decomplexation, adsorption onto precipitates, dilution due to precipitation etc. According to the data secured during operation at different mines, variable efficiencies are observed for decucing the cyanide concentrations (from 23-38% to 57-76% for Total Cyanides, and from 21-42% to 71-80% for WAD Cyanides), depending on the season (temperature). A reduction of 50% has been considered as average for CNt concentration at the Tailings Management Facility during operation. According to the modelling conducted for the degradation/decomposing process, it is possible to even have a reduction of 0.1 mg CNt/l in the first three years following closure. Most (90%) of the degraded cyanides (average of 50%) is achieved through hydrolyse/volatilization as hydrocyanic acid. The mathematical modelling of the concentration of hydrocyanic acid at the Tailings Management Facility lead to a maximum concentration of 382 µg/m3 against 5,000 µg/m3, a limit of emissions imposed through MAPPM Order no. 462/1993



http://www.cyanidecode.org/


issued for the approval of Technical Conditions on Atmospheric Protection and of the Methodological Norms on Determining Air Pollutants produced by stationary sources, with its subsequent amendments and alterations. 3. The interest area with respect to land acquisition is the area covered by the footprint of Zonal Urbanism Plan – Industrial Development Area Rosia Montana. The population impacted by relocation and resettlement, as per Resettlement and Relocation Action Plan has comprised initially 974 households, out of which 794 have already sold their property. Out of these, 143 households have been acquired with no relocation impact for the population (uninhabited dwellings); 150 families selected the resettlement option, approx. 150 families selected relocation within Rosia Montana area (Campeni, Abrud, neighbouring villages); 182 families selected relocation within Alba County and in the City of Alba Iulia; 45 families selected Hunedoara County to relocate, and 64 families relocated in other counties (Timis, Arad, Cluj), where they rejoined their brothers, sisters, parents or children that moved out of Roşia Montană due to a regular economic migration process (rural to urban migration in order to find work). The 143 uninhabited houses acquired by RMGC prove the fact that Roşia Montană is a community with a significant migrating experience.


Item no. 215

Stakeholder name Albu Benone


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC coming to Bucium?

Answer




Item no. 216

Stakeholder name Albu Benone


Question/ Comment

He requests information on the employment process at RMGC.

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Rosia Montana locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Rosia Montana Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The

















• Moreover, RMGC shall build a new locality at Piatra Albă and La Recea Quarter in Alba Iulia for the resettlement of population. Piatra Albă shall include a new civic centre, commercial and residential areas. Upon completion of RMP, these shall be




transferred to local authorities. The Relocation and Resettlement Action Plan (RRAP) contains all details related to these initiatives.
























Item no. 217

Stakeholder name Vadan Rodica

Stakeholder address Bucium Poieni, Nr. 738

Question/ Comment

I want news about the project.

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project with EPA Alba upon 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been shown on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Rosia Montana project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Rosia Montana project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical review team (TRT) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TRT (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this team, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TRT and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.

The Report to the environmental impact assessment was put forward to public debate during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Rosia Montana,




Abrud, Campeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Aries, Lupsa, Bucuresti, Deva, Arad).

Public debates were organized in Hungary at Szeged and Budapest as a result of Hungary’s participation in the environmental impact assessment procedure for the Rosia Montana project in transboundary context.

Based on the results of the public debates MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), reviewed the justified proposals / comments made by the public and requested the project developer to add an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study to include the solutions to the issues raised.

On 31.01.2007, MMDD sent to the project developer, i.e. SC Rosia Montana Gold Corporation SA, the form with the remarks and comments of the public received during the public consultation. On 04.05.2007, the project developer submitted with MMDD their response regarding the remarks and comments of the public, which response is included as an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study. MMDD sent the Appendix to the Report to the environmental impact assessment in electronic format, i.e. CD to the public which formulated remarks and comments. The Technical Review Team set up at central level (TRT) convened on 26.06.2007, 10.07.2007, 19.07.2007 and 09.08.2007. Four sections of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study were reviewed, namely:

Section 1 – General data Section 2 - Processes Sections 3 - Wastes Section 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental

components and mitigation measures, except the sub-section regarding the cultural and ethnical conditions and cultural heritage (8 sub-sections).

On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended by right. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Review Team which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment, under the law. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. Also, each issue of “Ziarul de Apuseni” newspaper presents an entire page dedicated to Roşia Montană project, where you can find all news related to the project.


Item no. 218

Stakeholder name Vadan Rodica


Question/ Comment

I support the project and I want jobs for the young people.

Answer












- US$2.42 billion, representing the value of assets and services provided from Romania RMGC also cooperates with stakeholders for the initiation of their own business so as to diversify and develop the economic opportunities provided by RMP:














Item no. 219

Stakeholder name Ionut Dorina

Stakeholder address Bucium-Sasa, Nr. 251

Question/ Comment

When is RMGC coming in Bucium?

Answer




Item no. 220

Stakeholder name Ionut Dorina


Question/ Comment

I want RMGC project to start so as to have jobs.

Answer




Item no. 221

Stakeholder name Miclea Cristean-Sergiu


Question/ Comment

Creating jobs

Answer




Item no. 222

Stakeholder name Miclea Roxana-Marina


Question/ Comment

News about RMGC projects.

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.

• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was made available for public




hearings during 24.07.2006 – 25.08.2006 in 14 different locations in Romania (Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni, Alba Iulia, Zlatna, Cluj Napoca, Turda, Bistra, Baia de Arieş, Lupşa, Bucureşti, Deva, Arad).

• Public debates were organized in Hungary at Szeged and Budapest as a result of Hungary’s participation in the environmental impact assessment procedure for the Roşia Montană project in transboundary context.

• Based on the results of the public debates MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), reviewed the justified proposals / comments made by the public and requested the project developer to add an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study to include the solutions to the issues raised.

On 31.01.2007, MMDD sent to the project developer, i.e. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA, the form with the remarks and comments of the public received during the public consultation. On 04.05.2007, the project developer submitted with MMDD their response regarding the remarks and comments of the public, which response is included as an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study. MMDD sent the Appendix to the Report to the environmental impact assessment in electronic format, i.e. CD to the public which formulated remarks and comments. The Technical Assessment Committee set up at central level (TAC) convened on 26.06.2007, 10.07.2007, 19.07.2007 and 09.08.2007. Four chapters of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study were reviewed, namely:

Chapter 1 – General data Chapter 2 – Technological Processes Chapter 3 - Wastes Chapter 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental


On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. Also, each issue of “Ziarul de Apuseni” newspaper presents a full page dedicated to Roşia Montană project, where you can find news related to the project


Item no. 223

Stakeholder name Miclea Roxana-Marina


Question/ Comment

I support the initiation of the project for the creation of jobs.

Answer
























Social Capital Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social





networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage: • Efforts for the development and promotion of cultural heritage in Roşia Montană both for

locals and for tourism purposes – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Cultural Heritage Partnership ([email protected]);















Item no. 224

Stakeholder name Purda Nicolae


Question/ Comment

Information regarding employment (Equipment and Machineries Mechanic).

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. During the 16 years of operations, the estimate is that Roşia Montană Project will require 881 direct jobs. It is expected that the majority of these jobs is going to be occupied by residents of the impact area of the Project. Please see below a brief listing of the fields and related jobs. Management:

• • General Manager • • Technical Director • • Mine Manager • • Operations Manager • • Administration assistants


• • Metallurgist • • Plant shift supervisor • • Metallurgy and laboratory technicians • • Sundry multi-skilled labour


• • Chemistry laboratory - Chemist - Assayers - Samplers (workers)




Mining activities

- • Shift supervisors - • Drilling and blasting foremen - • Head of mining - • Dispatch operators - • Chiefs of Training - • Head of statistic cost control - • Loading operators - • Truck drivers - • Operators of additional equipment - • Drilling operators

Maintenance

- • Maintenance foreman - • Electrical engineers - • Engine drivers - • Multi-functional equipment technicians - • Maintenance planners - • Electricians - • Mechanics - • Welders - • Equipment technicians - • Carpenters - • Clerk

Technical services

- • Geologists - • Mining engineers - • Mining planners - • Geo-technical engineers - • Technician - • Dispatch engineer - • Surveyors


- • Finance / accounting / IT - • Supply (purchasing, plan, warehouse) - • Human resources - • MPMS (environment, occupational health and safety) - • Patrimony (archaeologist, specialist, workers) - • Community relations - • Legal department - • Various contract works, such as cleaning, security, transportation, etc.


Item no. 225

Stakeholder name Visa Ciprian

Stakeholder address Bucium - Muntari

Question/ Comment

I would like the RMGC project to start so as to have jobs.

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development























Social Capital





Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage:
















Item no. 226

Stakeholder name Bolundut Constantin-Claudiu

Stakeholder address Bucium - Poieni, Nr. 615A

Question/ Comment

Will RMGC start hiring people? How will Bucium be impacted?

Answer

1. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development























Social Capital





Includes: professional training, strengthening the relations within the community, the social networks and the capacity of institutions to support and preserve the cultural heritage:











standards on environmental protection. 2. Bucium Commune is impacted through the diversion of County Road DJ742 due to the Alteration of Zonal Urbanism Plan - Roşia Montană Industrial Area, through which a portion of the existing road on Corna Valley is re-directed towards the southern bank of the ridge travelling in parallel with the south-eastern side of Corna Valley. The road will be paved and will connect the City of Abrud and Roşia Poieni mine site. 6.65km is the length of this road. The road alternative, that is about to be approved through this PUZ, will be required due to the fact that Corna Valley is going to be covered by the Tailings Management Facility, and it is the only access road between Roşia Poieni mine site and the National Road 74 namely DN 74A. RMGC Project needs an area of:

• 32ha of the administrative territory of Bucium commune, which is 8778ha, which represents 0.4%





Item no. 227

Stakeholder name Bolundut Emilia


Question/ Comment

Do they have something for Bucium?

Answer




Item no. 228

Stakeholder name Bolundut Emilia


Question/ Comment

I support the project so as to have jobs.

Answer

This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development



Item no. 229

Stakeholder name Briciu Dragea Dionise

Stakeholder address Bucium - Sasa, Nr. 1024

Question/ Comment

He wants the project to start so that he can have a job.

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Roşia Montană Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in



parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:
















Item no. 230

Stakeholder name Briciu Dragea Sanda-Elena


Question/ Comment

When does RMGC start? Is RMGC coming to Bucium too?

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries likely to be affected.

• The Report to the environmental impact assessment was made available for public





• Based on the results of the public debates MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), reviewed the justified proposals / comments made by the public and requested the project developer to add an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study to include the solutions to the issues raised.


• Chapter 1 – General data • Chapter 2 – Technological Processes • Chapter 3 - Wastes • Chapter 4 – Potential impact, including transboundary impact, on the environmental


On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be




assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.


Item no. 231

Stakeholder name Briciu Dragea Sanda-Elena


Question/ Comment

I want it to start as soon as possible in order to get a job.

Answer




Item no. 232

Stakeholder name Dragea Ana


Question/ Comment

Do they receive employment applications?

Answer

Yes, you can apply for future jobs. By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 233

Stakeholder name Dragea Ana


Question/ Comment

She wants the project to start so that people will have a job to go to.

Answer




Item no. 234

Stakeholder name Iancu Traian

Stakeholder address Bucium - Poieni, Nr. 746

Question/ Comment

When is RMGC project going to start?

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries




likely to be affected. • The Report to the environmental impact assessment was made available for public



Based on the results of the public debates MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), reviewed the justified proposals / comments made by the public and requested the project developer to add an appendix to the report to the environmental impact assessment study to include the solutions to the issues raised




On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement.


Item no. 235

Stakeholder name Iancu Traian

Stakeholder address Bucium - Poieni, Nr. 746

Question/ Comment

He wants RMGC project to start so as to have jobs.

Answer




Item no. 236

Stakeholder name Ciama Laurentiu

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Zorilor, Bl. W, Sc. 3, Et. 3, Ap. 8, Jud. Alba

Question/ Comment

Regarding the lands from Roşia Montană and Bucium Muntari.

Answer

If you own any land under the footprint of Roşia Montană project, please come to Comunity Development Department, where you will receive detailed explanation on the status of your land.



Item no. 237

Stakeholder name Ciama Laurentiu

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Zorilor, Bl. W, Sc. 3, Et. 3, Ap. 8, Jud. Alba

Question/ Comment

I support the project; I want it to start so as to have jobs.

Answer




Item no. 238

Stakeholder name Iancu Marin Silviu


Question/ Comment

When is RMGC project going to start? Is RMGC going to come at Bucium too?

Answer

1. SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries










On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement. 2. RMGC has developed geological exploration works, in order to identify and outline certain resources and reserves that could be capitalized in an economic manner based on an exploration license obtained for Bucium perimeter. In compliance with art. 17 (1), 18(2), letter a) and 20 of Mining law no. 85/2003, RMGC has prepared a Feasibility Study and other documentations in order to secure a mining license. These documentations have been compiled by SC Ipromin SA and forwarded in order to be




assessed and approved to the National Agency for Mineral Resources. Provided that the mining license is secured for Bucium Perimeter and the decision to develop the mining perimeter is made, a permitting process must be initiated for this mining project; it involves amongst others, the attainment of an environmental permit and to undergo an environmental impact assessment procedure, a process that, in compliance with the applicable legislation, also requires a public participation and consultation stage.


Item no. 239

Stakeholder name Macavei Maria


Question/ Comment

Are there going to be any employments made?

Answer

No, at the moment RMGC does not have any availeable jobs. By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 240

Stakeholder name Macavei Maria


Question/ Comment

I want the RMGC project to start so as to have jobs.

Answer




Item no. 241

Stakeholder name Marc Cornel

Stakeholder address Câmpeni, Str Mărăşesti, Nr. 10

Question/ Comment

He wonders if the area is going to suffer due to the mining activity pollution

Answer

The results of the assessment conducted on the potential remaining effects (after the implementation of the prevention/mitigation measures) of the Plan on the environment, including transboundary, are described in a synthetic manner and ranked in six impact categories which enabled us to identify the significant effects. The main results which outline the assessment of the quantified potential effects of the mining project, subject of the assessed Plan, on each relevant environment factor/aspect, are the following:

• Population - significant positive impact generated by the Project which involves a major investment related to the improvement of short, medium and long-term social and economic conditions in the community.

• Waste management - neutral impact on water and soil quality; The change in use of the lands within the Corna Valley will generate a negative impact during construction and operation which will be significantly mitigated during post-closure as a result of environmental rehabilitation and introduction of the lands into the natural circuit.

• Water - neutral impact with the specification that the proposals regarding the collection and treatment of ARD water from previous mining operations and proper management of all waste types will generate a significant positive cumulative impact on surface water and groundwater quality.

• Air - insignificant negative impact, as the contribution of operations to the pollutant concentrations in the ambient air in areas with sensitive receptors will be reduced and the levels cumulative with the contribution of existing sources will be well below limit values.

• Noise and vibrations - insignificant negative impact as the proposed mitigation measures will not generate nuisance noise nor will affect the population or buildings due to vibrations.

• Biodiversity, flora and fauna - negative impact during construction and operation, positive impact after mine closure and revegetation of the area.

• Cultural, architectural and archeological heritage - significant positive impact due to the actions carried out to date by RMGC and measures contained in the Cultural Heritage Management Plan.

• Human health - significant positive impact due to the creation of modern housing conditions, improvement of medical assistance and ensuring of environmental quality in accordance with the legal requirements.

• Road infrastructure/ transport - significant positive impact associated with road infrastructure as a result of its upgrading and increase of traffic safety. Neutral impact associated with the transport related to the Project activities.

• Landscape - insignificant negative impact after the rehabilitation and revegetation of the area, the only significant negative impact at local scale consists in the permanent modification of the topography.

• Soil/land use - neutral impact due to the impact prevention/mitigation measures. • Material assets - positive impact due to the use of local resources and purchase pf

property based on mutually advantageous transactions. Significant positive impact due to the high recovery efficiency of precious metals from ore.

• Climate factors - insignificant negative impact with the specification that the greenhouse gas emission sources will be removed after the mine closure.




• Transboundary effects – the only significant transboundary impact could be the pollution of the surface waters, following a failure of the TMF. The assessment of the transboundary remaining impact on the quality of surface waters related to the break of the Corna Valley dam may be ranked as being neutral.

For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone.


Item no. 242

Stakeholder name Balea Gheorghe

Stakeholder address Com. Bistra, Sat Garde, Nr. 20

Question/ Comment

Locals from neighbouring areas should be hired

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of



the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:
















Item no. 243

Stakeholder name Mihon Emilia

Stakeholder address Mihoieşti, Câmpeni, Nr. 40

Question/ Comment

Which will be the impacts on the environment?

Answer



















For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone


Item no. 244

Stakeholder name Culda Sorin

Stakeholder address Campeni, Str. Horea, Nr. 47, Bl. 45B

Question/ Comment

Is the affected area going to be rehabilitated after the cessation of mining activity?

Answer

Closure and environmental rehabilitation works conducted at Roşia Montană include the following activities:

• Covering waste dumps with vegetal soil when these dumps are not used as material sources for pit backfilling;

• Backfilling the pits, except for Cetate Pit that shall be flooded and transformed in a lake; • Covering the Tailings Management Facility and dams surfaces with vegetal soil; • Dismantling decommissioned production installations and environmental rehabilitation of

decommissioned surfaces; • Treatment of waters through semi-passive systems (using classical treatment systems

as backups) until all effluents indicators are meeting the legal limits and do not require further treatment;

• Maintenance of vegetation, fighting against erosion and monitoring the entire site until RMGC proves that all the rehabilitation objectives have been achieved in a sustainable manner.

According to the Mining Law no. 85/2003, an Environmental Financial Guarantee (EFG) shall be established before creating any other debt. EFG is regulated by the Mining Law no. 85/2003, by the Instructions issued by the National Agency for Mineral Resources and the Application Norms of Mining Law endorsed through Governmental Decision no. 1208/2003. There are two separate and different EFGs according to Romanian legislation. The first guarantee, which is updated on an annual basis, is focused on covering the costs envisaged for environmental rehabilitation due to the operation of the mine site for the respective year, according to art. 133 of Governmental Decision no. 1208/2003. The second guarantee, also updated on annual basis, defines the estimate costs for Roşia Montană mine closure. The value of EFG aimed at covering the final rehabilitation cost is determined as an annual share of the value of the environmental rehabilitation works provided in the environmental rehabilitation project and in the post-closure programme developed for monitoring the environmental factors. This programme is part of the Technical Programme for Mine Closure, a document that must be endorsed by the National Agency for Mineral Resources ("NAMR”). All EFGs shall meet the detailed regulations issued by the World Bank and the International Council for Mining and Metals. There are also two directives of the European Union that impact the financial guarantee: Directive 2006/21/EC on mining wastes management and on altering the Directive 2004/35/CE and Directive 2004/35/CE on environmental responsibility regarding prevention and restoration environmental damages. The directive regarding mining wastes is aimed at ensuring the fact that there is cover for 1) all duties resulting from the permit granted for eliminating wastes resulted from the mining activities,




and 2) all costs for rehabilitation of lands impacted by the wastes deposit. The directive on environmental responsibility regulates the remediation activities and the measures that are to be made by the environmental authorities if mining activities produce environmental damages, in order to ensure the fact that the mining operator has sufficient financial resources available to develop the environmental rehabilitation actions. RMGC is going to comply with all legal provisions regarding the financial guarantees that will be adopted in the future based on article 33 of Governmental Emergency Ordinance no. 68/2007 implementing Directive no.2004/35/CE regarding the environmental responsibility concerning the prevention and rehabilitation of the environmental damages and article 50 of Governmental Decision no. 856/2008 implementing Directive 2006/21/CE regarding the management of wastes resulted from extractive industries and for the alteration of Directive 2004/35/CE. The current closure costs for the Roşia Montană project amount to US$135 million, calculated based on operating the mine for a period of 16 years. Annual updates will be established by independent experts in cooperation with NAMR, as the competent governmental authority in the field of mining activities. The updates ensure that in the less probable case of early closure of the project, at any given moment, EFG reflects the costs associated to ecologic rehabilitation. (These annual updates will have as result an estimate value that exceeds the current closure cost of US$135 million, due to the fact that the some ecological rehabilitation works are performed during the regular mining activity.) The annual updates comprise the following four elements:

• Alterations brought to the project impacting the environmental rehabilitation objectives; • Alterations of legislative framework from Romania, including the enforcement of EU

directives; • New technologies improving the environmental rehabilitation methods and practices; • Adjustments of the prices of some of the products and services that are essential to

environmental rehabilitation. Once these updates are completed, the new estimated costs for the closure works will be included in the financial statements of RMGC and they will be made public. In compliance with the law, there are several financial instruments to ensure that RMGC is capable to cover all closure costs in such a manner that the Romanian authorities will not have a financial responsibility with respect to the environmental rehabilitation of Roşia Montană project.


Item no. 245

Stakeholder name Cioica Ioan

Stakeholder address Lupsa, Sat Musaca, Nr. 177

Question/ Comment

He does not support the project, the main reason is pollution.

Answer


















For more detail information, please see Chapter 6 and 7 of the Environmental Report on the Amendment of the Urbanism Zone for Roşia Montană Industrial Zone This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:
























• Education opportunities for adults and improvement of their skills through training






programmes, educational funds and scholarships, in order to increase the chances to secure a job both directly with RMGC and indirectly – RMGC is a partner in the Roşia Montană Professional and Vocational Training Programme;













Item no. 246

Stakeholder name Berindei Nicoleta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Cristea, Nr. 103

Question/ Comment

More jobs should be offered for the town of Abrud too, not only for Rosia and Corna

Answer




Item no. 247

Stakeholder name Berindei Nicoleta

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Cristea, Nr. 103

Question/ Comment

I want a job at RMGC too

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities.



Item no. 248

Stakeholder name Bendea Ioan

Stakeholder address Com. Rosia Montana, Sat Carpinis, Nr. 865

Question/ Comment

People in the area should be hired

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in



parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:
















Item no. 249

Stakeholder name Crisan Emil

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Florilor, Bl. S, Sc. 2, Ap. 11

Question/ Comment

The establishment of the interest percentages in the business. Sustainable development of the area

Answer

1. The shares in the benefits and losses of Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA have been established depending on their contribution to the share capital of the company. The current percentages of 80% for Gabriel Resources Ltd and 19.31% for CNCAF Minvest SA have resulted following the initial contribution and subsequent contributions of shareholders to the company share capital; Gabriel Resources Ltd. paying for all expenses and costs associated with the development/mining and permitting activities of Roşia Montană Project. 2. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The diversification of economic development is a major benefit of investments generated for the development of RMP. To meet its commitments, RMGC is aware of the fact that it has to cooperate with the community, authorities and civil society in issues directly related to area development. This approach allows the community to hold, orient and control all relevant development issues in an integrant manner and through the participation of all stakeholders.



Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) agrees that in order to meet its commitments on sustainable development process, it needs to cover the three major elements of the sustainable development process: social, economical and environmental. These elements are presented below as 5 interdependent domains, which are the key for the sustainable development. The five key domains of the sustainable development Financial Capital Includes: impact on the economic development, and on fiscal, taxes, and duties administration, provided by:

















• Improvement of the medical emergency system in the region; • Construction of a new school and of a new civic and residential centre in Piatra Albă;




• Health awareness campaigns (in partnership with local authorities and NGOs) on: reproduction health, nutrition and lifestyle, etc.

• Partnerships with educational organizations and NGOs on improvement of educational facilities in the region, together with the access to these facilities; for instance, local NGOs and authorities cooperated for the establishment of an educational partnership based at CERT Association headquarters (Apuseni Youth Resource Centre - www.certapuseni.ro).


















Item no. 250

Stakeholder name Crisan Emil

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Florilor, Bl. S, Sc. 2, Ap. 11

Question/ Comment

Ensuring jobs for the locals of the area. Preservation of the area in Rosia Montana which is cultural patrimony. Relocation of churches and graves.

Answer

2. The Roşia Montană Protected Area shall have an area of over 130ha.It will include architectural values of this locality (restored and developed), organized as a mining museum with geologic, archaeological, ethnographical (with an open air exhibit), industrial patrimony exhibits and a major underground component located around Cătălina Monuleşti Gallery. The company intends to promote the development of traditional tourism (inns, small bars) in this part of the locality. The historic lakes: Tăul Mare, Tăul Brazi and Tăul Anghel are located in the east and south-eastern part of old centre. Modern (entertainment) tourism may be developed here. We would like to underline the fact that none of the historic monument buildings existing within the proposed project area shall be impacted in an adverse manner, and all 41 historic monument buildings shall be included in an ample rehabilitation and restoration programme. This program is critical if one wants to see that these houses – regardless of the development of non-development of the mining project – do not disappear due to their current wear and tear status.

These are the things that company intends to protect and promote and that is why special measures are to be put in place both within Roşia Montană Historic Centre (restoration-consolidation-preservation) and within Industrial Perimeter (using special blasting procedures, creation of a buffer zone between the two perimeters, continuous monitoring of vibrations and tailoring the blasting procedures to meet the waves propagation velocity etc.). As publicly announced within the EIA Report, once the launch of Roşia Montană Mining Project is approved, all historic monuments from Roşia Montană shall enter in a complex restoration and preservation programme.If historic monument buildings remain in the property of different institutions or natural persons, RMGC with their approval shall fully contribute to the restoration of these buildings in full compliance with the specific norms issued by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. 41 buildings have been classified as historic monuments and included on the List of Historic Monuments published in the Official Gazette no. 646 bis of 16.07.2004, the buildings being located within Roşia Montană territory, i.e. two churches and 39 houses (code LMI 2004: AB-II-m-B-00269, şi apoi de la AB-II-m-B-00271 la AB-II-m-B-00311). Currently, RMGC owns 26 historic monument buildings. These have been acquired by following the provisions stipulated under Law no. 422/2001 on protection of historic monument, republished, these were in different preservation status upon their acquisition, this fact being mentioned within the sale/purchase agreements as well as in different pictures taken from their acquisition to date. 3. The company designed its mining operations to be conducted in such a manner so to the extent possible not to impact the site of existing cemeteries. However, a number of 410 graves of the 1,905 existing ones at Roşia Montană shall be impacted. Re-inhumations shall be done upon families requests on the expenses of RMGC in full compliance with Romanian legislation on re-inhumations; the company commitment is to act in a respectful and considered manner. The abandoned graves shall be resettled with the all the respect and consideration on behalf of the company to the new cemetery at Piatra Albă.




Two churches and two halidoms of the 10 religious buildings located within Roşia Montană Project impact area must be resettled or rebuilt in accordance to mine development plan. He resettlement shall be conducted by considering the wishes of the parish members on the expenses of RMGC. Church construction is a central element of the process of creation of a new community at Piatra Albă, on the expenses of RMGC.


Item no. 251

Stakeholder name Tuhut Constantin

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Trandafirilor, Bl. K, Ap. 29

Question/ Comment

When is Rosia Montana mine going to start?

Answer

SC Roşia Montană Gold Corporation SA submitted the application for the issue of the environmental agreement for the Roşia Montană Project to EPA Alba on 14.12.2004. The application submitted by the project developer included: the technical sheet, appendix to the urbanism certificate and project presentation report, which has been published on the ministry’s website as from 20.12.2004. Given that the project falls under the provisions of the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in transboundary context, the Ministry of Environment requested the Ministry of External Affair by way of letter no. 4596 of 21.12.2004 to send notifications to the countries likely to be affected, namely: Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine, Slovakia. Hungary confirmed participation in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. Also, Hungary sent a preliminary proposal regarding the contents of the Report to the environmental impact assessment study for the Roşia Montană project. Bulgaria responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project. The Republic of Moldavia responded to the notification stating that it will not participate in the environmental impact assessment in transboundary context on the Roşia Montană Project, however it requested the Report to the environmental impact assessment, once completed. Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine and Slovakia did not respond to the notification. Upon 14.04.2005, the Roşia Montană project site was inspected by representatives of MMDD (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development), ARPM Sibiu, EPA Alba and project developer. Following the site inspection a report was drafted up and the completion of the check list according to the legislation in force was commenced. Upon 10.05.2005, the meeting of the technical assessment committee (TAC) was held at central level for the phase related to establishing the legal framework and defining the scope of the assessment. The TAC (formed of representatives of the Romanian Academy, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transports, MIE, MCC, NAMR, ANAR) established the matters to be addressed in the report to the environmental impact assessment. In addition to the matters identified by the Romanian institutions represented in this committee, RMGC also addressed the matters requested by the Hungarian environmental authorities. The Report to the environmental impact assessment was developed by certified persons in accordance with the relevant legislation and based on the checklist for defining the scope of the assessment, additional questions of the institutions in the TAC and proposals of the countries











On 12.09.2007, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development suspended the environmental impact assessment procedure on the grounds that the urbanism certificate no. 105/2007 is suspended. RMGC disputed the decision to suspend the procedure for issue of the integrated environmental agreement taking the Ministry of Environment and its representatives to court by a Court statement of claim which is part of File No. 8037/2/2007 and is under settlement with the Court of Appeal of Bucharest - Administrative and Fiscal Contentious Division. S.C. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation S.A. takes all the required actions to restart this procedure, awaiting that the review of the Report to the environmental impact assessment to be resumed by the Technical Assessment Committee which needs to be convened by the Ministry of Environment. Consequently, the exploitation of the mining deposit depends largely on the stage of the permitting of the Mining Project and especially on the company gaining the environmental agreement.


Item no. 252

Stakeholder name Tuhut Constantin

Stakeholder address Abrud, Str. Aleea Trandafirilor, Bl. K, Ap. 29

Question/ Comment

People in the area must be hired

Answer

By the time of employment resumption, all vacancy announcements will be public. All enrolled candidates which will present the complete file, by the time that the interview will take place, will be able to participate to the job contest. If the professional experience and skills of the participants at the job interview are equal, priority shall be granted to Roşia Montană locals. Every one can participate at the recruitment interview, in equal conditions with other applicants. The recruiters will have to comply with the requirements provided by the recruitment announcements. At the employment, priority is given to people having no job and therefore no social protection, if they comply with the requirements for the job. RMGC indicates that all employments will be done in accordance with the previsions stipulated in GO no. 137/2000 regarding the prevention and penalty of all discrimination forms, in order to make sure that equal opportunity is granted to all people that don’t benefit from the social protection in comparison with the other persons, group of individuals or communities. This area shall benefit from the opportunities created through the development of this mining project that is aimed at the sustainable development of the entire area. Currently RMGC has approx. 200 employees, out of which over 90% are living in Roşia Montană, Abrud, Câmpeni and Bucium. Training programmes have been developed to support the members of the local communities existing around Rosia Montana Project area to allow them to obtain qualifications for different jobs or skills, both during construction and operations stages. To date, over 5,000 individuals have joined the training courses and over 2,500 individuals have already graduated or are enrolled in the professional training courses, especially in the fields of construction, wood processing industry or services industry: security, sales, tourism, social assistance, transport, utilities, environmental monitoring, etc. Unfortunately, due to the challenges faced by this project during the last year, the company was forced to stop several programmes (among which this training programme) and even to recourse to dismissals so as to reduce its costs and at the same time to maintain the necessary capital for the further development of the project. The company shall restart these training courses when the situation allows it. If the necessary skills are not available at local level, employment offers shall be made for the locals on a 100Km radius around Roşia Montană Project (RMP), priority being given to the citizens of Alba County. Based on our preliminary assessment, we expect that most of the jobs available during construction and operation stages to be filled by labour force from the local community. Aside immediate direct and indirect benefits, RMP presence as a major investment shall improve the economic climate in the area, which, on its turn, shall encourage and promote development of economic activities not related to mining industry. It is expected that this qualitative growth of the investment and economic climate would lead to business opportunities that would develop in parallel with RMP, even though the scope of mining development is greatly exceeded. The

















Human Capital




Includes: health and education: • Construction of a dispensary and of a private clinic at Piatra Albă, available to the entire

community through health insurance systems; • Modernization of a wing of Abrud Hospital, available for the entire community through the

National Health Insurance System; • Improvement of the medical emergency system in the region; • Construction of a new school and of a new civic and residential centre in Piatra Albă; • Health awareness campaigns (in partnership with local authorities and NGOs) on:




















Item no. 253

Stakeholder name Ciama Ecaterina

Stakeholder address Bucium Muntari, Sat Floresti, Nr. 348

Question/ Comment

She asks if jobs are going to be created.

Answer




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