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The Bui Hydro-Electric Power Project could be adversely affected if illegal mining activities popularly called galamsey activities are not halted along the Black Volta.This is the warning from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Coordinator, Kofi Porturphy.Speaking to Joy News, Mr. Porturphy said the Galamsey activities pose serious threats to the Bui Dam and the Volta Lake and must be stopped immediately.According to him, “We must stop [the galamsey operations] effectively. If you go up north to Boli area towards the boarder of Cote D’ivoire the kind of mining activities that are starting there, if we are not careful and we don’t stop them and they divert the course of the Black Volta, Bui Dam will dry up and then the Volta River on the Black Volta will be contaminated and polluted.”Kofi Porturphy noted that several rivers, including Offin, Brim, Tano, have been polluted due to the illegal mining activities and urged that “we must as a people reduce the risk and prevent the disaster from occurring.”
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