{"id":103690,"date":"2025-11-17T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103690"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:40:45","slug":"swiftly-ratify-atlantic-lithium-lease-delays-are-costing-ghana-jobs-and-revenue-chamber-of-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103690","title":{"rendered":"Swiftly ratify Atlantic lithium lease, delays are costing Ghana jobs and revenue \u2013 Chamber of Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Ing. Dr Ken Ashigbey, has called for the expedited ratification of Atlantic Lithium\u2019s mining lease, cautioning that prolonged delays are causing Ghana to lose both economic opportunities and its competitive edge within the sub-region.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Joy News on the back of renewed discussions over the project, Dr Ashigbey stressed that while Ghana has stalled, neighbouring countries are rapidly advancing their lithium industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cMali just started its second lithium mine. Nigeria has done about four of those. Other countries are going ahead of us,\u201d he noted, adding that Ghana risks falling behind in a sector expected to shape the global energy transition.<\/p>\n

He revealed that Atlantic Lithium had already demonstrated strong economic potential at the project site even before operations officially began. According to him, the company had become the highest tax-paying entity in the Mankessim district<\/em> without extracting \u201ca single ton or a gram of lithium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Ashigbey added that close to 100 jobs had already been created in anticipation of the project\u2019s takeoff, but many of these workers have now been left stranded due to the protracted delays.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of those people, because of the delay in starting, have had to suffer,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not only that \u2014 there are compensations that were supposed to be paid, but these have stalled.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further explained that training programmes, skills development, and other social benefits tied to the project have also been suspended.<\/p>\n

The Chamber of Mines CEO linked the current setback to the controversies that surrounded the mining lease when it was first laid before Parliament last year, saying the impasse has had significant consequences for the host communities and the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe implications for the people, the implications for us as a country \u2014 the fiscal benefits we were supposed to have gotten, the jobs we should have created \u2014 all of these have suffered,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n

Dr Ashigbey said accelerating the ratification process is critical if Ghana is to secure its place in Africa\u2019s emerging lithium market and avoid further economic losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I think it\u2019s important that we expedite the ratification of this lease,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"SwiftlyThe Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Ing. Dr Ken Ashigbey, has called for the expedited ratification of Atlantic Lithium\u2019s mining lease, cautioning that prolonged delays are causing Ghana to lose both economic opportunities and its competitive edge within the sub-region.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8388,1917,4027,1246,11228,1883,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-of-mines","category-hp-news-4","category-jobs","category-ken-ashigbey","category-lithium","category-national","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}