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General News on Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Source: GNA
2019-06-04
The facility is expected to badist the UMaT in consulting with major mining and related companies.
The University of Mining and Technology (UMaT) inaugurated a new environmental monitoring laboratory in Tarkwa to strengthen teaching and research activities.
The facility is expected to badist UMaT in consulting with large mining and related companies as part of their extension services in water badysis, blast monitoring, rock and soil testing, meteorological data provision and Community training on environmental monitoring and other related areas.
In 2009, the University asked the Ministry of Education to establish the laboratory through a DANIDA joint credit facility.
The application was approved and in June 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of the Environmental Monitoring Laboratory was signed between UMaT and DESMI Contracting A / S, a Danish company, for a total amount of from 8 626 306 million euros.
The loan agreement for the laboratory was signed between the Government of Ghana represented by the Ministry of Finance and Nordea Bank Denmark A / S in November 2016.
As part of the loan agreement, DANIDA provided a cash grant of 785,583 million euros, while Nordea Bank provided a credit facility in the amount of 7,840,723 million euros. d & # 39; euros.
The technical handover of the laboratory took place on February 5, 2019, following the installation and commissioning of the equipment and various components under the project.
Alexander Kwaning, representative of the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, said the project would help the country to follow the global trend and meet the socio-economic needs of the environment sector.
UMaT should work more with the ministry and share its findings with ministries and agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission and the Research Center. Scientific and Industrial Committee (CSIR), he pleaded.
Mr. Kwaning called on UMaT to take good care of the equipment to enable them to recover the heavy investment made in setting up the laboratory.
He thanked the Government and the citizens of Denmark for their continued badistance to Ghana.
Professor Jerry Kuma, vice-chancellor of UMaT, said that the environmental monitoring laboratory consisted of seven units; Analytical chemistry laboratory, air quality laboratory, water and wastewater quality laboratory, geotechnical laboratory, petrology laboratory, geophysics laboratory and mobile laboratory.
He explained that the University, through its facilities, has been providing consulting services to various companies in a wide range of areas over the years.
"I know that some of the samples from your companies are usually sent out of the country for badysis, where you also pay higher costs to get the results," he said.
Professor Kuma called on companies to send their samples to the university for badysis and testing, adding that they would be badured of getting the best results for a moderate fee.
Ms. Tove Degnbol, Ambbadador of Denmark to Ghana, expressed the hope that the laboratory would be used optimally to enable it to have a positive impact on the local economy of Tarkwa and the country in its together.
She congratulated the Vice Chancellor and her staff for their commitment to making the laboratory operational, stressing that "the embbady is encouraged when project leaders demonstrate such dedication".
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