Quercus joins court action to annul Borralha tungsten mine's environmental approval

Environmental group Quercus has joined a lawsuit, filed in April by Povo e Natureza do Barroso, seeking to annul the conditional favourable environmental impact decision granted in January by the Portuguese Environment Agency for Minerália's tungsten project at Borralha, in Montalegre. Quercus warns of risks to the Cávado basin's water supply, protected oak woodland and Iberian wolf habitat, and says key safeguards were left for later study. Minerália says the operation will neither draw nor discharge water into natural watercourses. The project is one of 46 the European Commission selected as strategic critical-raw-material schemes.