AMI AFRICA EXPLORATION LIMITED vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

JUDGMENT TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA Lake Bosumtwi, a crater site noted as a world heritage, and supposed to have been caused by a meteor’s impact with earth more than one million years ago (see exhibit 15), is at the center of this dispute. In July 1996, the plaintiff, a Canadian company then called Norcan Mining Corporation applied for a prospecting license in the Lake Bosumtwi area at a location called Ankasi. Norcan Mining eventually obtained three prospecting licenses in the lake area called the ANKASI, ADUMASA AND PEMENASE concessions. In 2004, these three concessions were subsumed into a single unit called the BEPOSO Concession. In 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to give the plaintiff an environmental permit to mine in the Beposo Concession on the ground that there was a 10 kilometer radius restricted non-economic zone (hereinafter referred to as the restricted zone or NEZ) around the lake. The plaintiff raised a complaint against .....