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YCC opposes proposal to fund MPs’ Pension Scheme using Carbon Credit revenues

B & FT Online 07 Feb 2025
It instead proposed that Parliament explores more innovative and sustainable revenue sources, such as reviewing current mining leases to increase Ghana’s revenue share, with even 1% dedicated to funding the MPs’ pension scheme.
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EOCO freezes Prestea-Bogoso mine transaction following investigations into process of acquisition...

Business Ghana 03 Jan 2025
The union said it was deeply convinced that the government had diligently acquitted itself in accordance with the laws of Ghana to terminate the mining leases held by FGR/Blue Gold to Heath Goldfields.
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Ghana Mineworkers’ Union commends government as Heath Goldfields takes over Bogoso/Prestea Mines

Ghana Business News 01 Jan 2025
The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union (GMWU) of the Trade Union Congress, Ghana, has commended the government’s decision to issue the mining leases of the Bogoso/Prestea Mines to Heath Goldfields.
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Electrochem refutes allegations in Fourth Estate documentary

B & FT Online 18 Dec 2024
Electrochem Ghana Limited has issued a response to ... Electrochem clarified that its concession spans 41,000 acres across Ada East and Ada West Districts, a lease ratified by the Parliament of Ghana.
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NPP Majority petitions Speaker for recall of Parliament

Ghana Business News 26 Nov 2024
The rest are Ratification of the Mining Lease Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana (Represented by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources) and the Ashanti Bauxite Company ...
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Ghana to go live with FLEGT licenses by the end of June, 2025

B & FT Online 25 Nov 2024
The issue had to do with the Parliamentary ratification of extant leases, and permits as the final step to convert them to Timber Utilisation Contracts (TUCs), which would indicate Ghana’s “system readiness for FLEGT licensing.”.
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BoG confirms Joe Jackson as Dalex Finance’s new CEO

B & FT Online 30 Oct 2024
The Bank of Ghana has confirmed Joe Jackson as the new Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance and Leasing Company Limited, a leading innovator in the financial sector.
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McDan Group partners GPHA to enhance marine transport and logistics

B & FT Online 28 Oct 2024
With the acquisition of a 30-year renewable lease for the Ghana Highway Authority’s ferry maintenance and operations terminal site in Ada, McDan plans to develop the “ElectroChem Terminal, Port of Ada”.
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IEA wants Newmont Akyem Gold Mine sold to local investors

Business Ghana 23 Oct 2024
"IEA sees the deal to be flawed in several respects, inimical to Ghana's interest and unacceptable," it stated regarding the purported new lease ... The existing lease agreement between the ...
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Planned sale of Newmont’s Akyem Gold Mine legally flawed – IEA

Business Ghana 23 Oct 2024
The IEA argues that the sale undermines Ghana’s economic interests and violates key terms of the mine’s lease agreement, set to expire in January 2025 ... economic benefits for Ghana.
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Ashanti Bauxite Limited unveils mine with refinery plans to transform communities

Business Ghana 11 Oct 2024
... consequently appealed to Parliament to expedite the ratification of the mining lease, highlighting that the one per cent community development fund would be a first in Ghana’s bauxite industry.
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Parliament urged to maintain existing Salt Mining leases of ElectroChem

B & FT Online 12 Sep 2024
The report, which comes in the wake of a deadly clash between small-scale miners and security forces employed by ElectroChem Ghana Limited, urges against any legal or factual review of the mining leases ratified by Parliament in November 2020.
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Parliament Committee says no need to review three of Electrochem’s mining leases

Ghana Business News 10 Sep 2024
A joint report by Parliament’s Select Committees on Mines and Energy and Lands and Forestry says there is no legal basis to review or modify the three mining leases of Ghana’s largest ...
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Forest Invasion: The president’s men and women mining in Ghana’s forest reserves

Ghana Business News 06 Sep 2024
Records from the Minerals Commission reveal that just four months before nudging others to help make Ghana green, Mr Pyne’s company applied for a lease to mine for gold in the Oda River Forest Reserve, located in the Ashanti Region.
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Family land transactions – an exposition

B & FT Online 06 Sep 2024
The brief fact of this dispute as reported by myjoyonline.com on 9 July, 2024 is that, the government of Ghana with the consent of the Ada Traditional Council granted a mining lease of 41,000 acres of ...

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