Week 6 # 2 The Australian Gold Mine Need To Be Shut Down

URL : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-11/thailand-orders-australian-run-gold-mine-to-shut-down/7403014

Who : Thai Government

What : The Thai government ordered the Australian gold mine to shut down by the end of this year

When : 10 May 2016

Where : Pichit province, Thailand

Why : The gold mine was allegedly harming the health of the local community who lived nearby.

How : The company did separate blood testing on the people in the community to check about their health

Summary : In 10 May, 2016, Pichit province, Thailand has a biggest gold mine operating that would be shut down down by the end of this year. Due to the people in the local community alleged about their health. The company make the separate blood testing to check the people health and the company refused that their gold mine cause a bad health because there is no evidence.

This article is important to the people in that area because the people might be affected by toxin water from doing this gold mine. This also cause the bad environment. All around is included in this because there is not only Thailand that have a gold mine, so the other countries have to know how to face this problem.