BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – MNG Gold and Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC) have smuggled a huge consignment of ammonia nitrate—the chemical that caused the devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon last month—into Liberia for mining. The big bags of ammonia nitrate are guarded by eight armed police officers of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU). But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia, the government office that supervises the import, export and use of chemicals, said it was unaware of the ammonia nitrate. Importing a chemical without the consent of the EPA is a crime under the Environmental Protection and Management Law of Liberia. Some of the 1,250 kilograms of ammonia nitrate in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County.

Source: Front Page Africa September 30, 2020 07:18 UTC