In the event opened in Facebook, Armenian Environmental Front invites to join a rally at 16:00 on 11 May 2019 on the square called “Stop for Taxis” in Ajapnyak, Jermuk Town, a big rally for the sake of Amulsar. Before the launch of the rally, a symbolic car march will start at 09:30 from Jermuk […]
According to \”EcoLur\” Informational NGO, in 2012, Sotq Community in Gegharkounik Region approved Sotq gold mining re-equipment project: the community gave 1047 ha of land area for rent to “GeoProMining Gold” Company developing Sotq mine. In 2016, Sotq community received 68 million AMD for the land areas leased by the company, nevertheless, in 2017 this
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Yesterday at the session at the National Assembly, Armenian Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan spoke about the closedown of Alaverdi Copper Smelting Plant, cessation of Teghout copper and molybdenum mine and the situation around Amulsar mine. \”It is impossible for any international partner, the investor\’s interest, to be more important than the interests of our country,
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\”Business & Human Rights Resource Centre\” invited \”Lydian International\”, Amulsar gold mine\’s operator, to respond the demands of the petition (http://chn.ge/2dnNKIr) initiated by environmentalists , but it did not. They also invited \”Resource Capital Funds\” & \”Orion Mine Finance\”, Amulsar gold mine investors to respond, but they did not respond either. We remind that the company
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Greenpeace informs us about rainforest destructions in Indonesia by palm oil companies. The IOI company has spent almost 10 years destroying the rainforest, disturbing local people and endangering orangutans. Every year ferocious forest fires sweep across their country. As a result, Indonesia has lost 1/4 of its rainforest in the last 25 years, yet IOI
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The Guardian reports that Doñana, a wetland that is a home to 2,000 species of wildlife, is likely to appear in the Unesco world heritage danger list. It is said to have lost 80% of its natural water supplies due to marsh drainage, intensive agriculture, and water pollution from the mining industry. Now Spain has two
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“EcoLur” Informational NGO has addressed a letter to Armenian government, which says that the government has taken two contradictory decisions on the development of Jermuk community. The first one is on declaring Jermuk Town as a center of tourism, and the second one on Amulsar gold mining project. The contradictory fact is that, according to
Pan-Armenian Environmental Front informs us in the Facebook page that serious problems have occurred during the exploitation of Teghut Mine. This information is not confirmed yet. The resources in mine and copper and molybdenum concentrations in the ore are less than it has been confirmed several years ago. Because of the drop in international
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\”EcoLur\” environmental, informational NGO informs us that a press conference will be held at 11:00, 24 August at EcoLur Press Club (49/2 Hanrapetutyun St.) where Amulsar gold mine risks and the dangers for Vorotan-Arpa tunnel and Lake Sevan will be discussed: Speakers are Inga Zarafyan, President of \’EcoLur\’ Informational NGI, Nazeli Vardanyan – Director of
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During the round table entitled “Vulnerability of Ecosystems Conditioned with Climate Change” held at EcoLur Press Club, Eleonora Gabrielyan, Dr. in Biological Sciences, Professor, said that a travertine mine is developed in Urtsasar, which is the birthplace of Armenian moufflon and habitat of red-listed species. “The ex-president took off the most important part of the
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