Vietnam national Coal - Mineral Industries Group (TKV) Sunday said that it appreciated opinions from intellectuals on bauxite project on Central Highlands and would call an independent consultant to reconsider the project.
TKV is planning to send a delegation to Hungary for learning ways to deal with a red mud disaster resulted from bauxite exploiting process, said its representatives.
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Hung Vo is one of the ministry’s officials to sign in a petition of intellectuals to the Government on halting bauxite project.
Explaining for his signing, the deputy minister said that Vietnam now was a middle income country hence it dose not need a premature bauxite exploitation project.
“When Vietnam was still a poor country, crude mineral exploitation aiming to earn money for the people was right”, he added.
Mr Dang Hung Vo said that it is necessary to set up an independent research group to completely assess the bauxite project on Central Highland in order to ensure objectiveness and persuasiveness of the project.
After the red mud disaster resulted from a bauxite project occurred in Hungary, many intellectuals and politicians have raised their concern over the bauxite project on Central Highland and call the Government to reconsider the project.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has listened to the public and decided to reexamine the project.
Last year General Vo Nguyen Giap, who defeated the French in the historic battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, sent a letter to the National Assembly and Politburo to call for reassessing the project under national security.
