By Paul Luke
The Province
Vancouver’s Eldorado Gold stayed calm in the face of rage triggered by the mine it’s building in Greece.
The company didn’t expect everyone in Aristotle’s birthplace in northeastern Greece would shower it with love. It knew that protests against everything from austerity to a U.S. pizza chain’s hiring policies are common in a region with a 35-per-cent jobless rate.
Eldorado’s gold project has the support of 12 of 16 villages in the area. It has a crucial environmental permit from the central government to start production at Skouries.
Opponents say the Skouries mine will trash the environment. Eldorado has offered detailed reassurances that it won’t.
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