The Government has sought the help of Simon Fraser
University in Canada to prepare an appropriate methodology for evaluating the
impact of mining on human health. Civil society organizations have been at the
forefront of demands for such assessments, particularly in view of
Environment Minister L.Gansukh has said the Southern Gobi
region has limited water reserve and several studies will have to be reviewed
and the discrepancies in them reconciled before a clearer picture emerges of
water availability for the Tavantolgoi project. The concern of the
In the past few weeks, at least
two long reports have appeared outside Mongolia on how “ultra-nationalists have
emerged from an impoverished economy and turned upon outsiders in the country”,
their “main targets” being those from China, the rising power to the south.
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