Hetq reported that the Prosecutor General\’s Office has issued a statement saying that a gold mine has been extracted with illegal resource exploitation in a specially protected area of Arevik National Park. A criminal case has been initiated upon that. The matter concerns Meghrasar\’s gold mine, the resource exploitation rights of which was received by […]
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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 informs us that RA Ministry of Environment has fined the director of “Hakobjanyan and Galsyan” Ltd exploiting “Shaqi” SHPP. The reason is the violation of water use permission requirements. According to the Information and Public Relations Department of RA Ministry of Environment, a water use permission process has been launched in the ministry after
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The Guardian reports about the Daldykan river waters in Russia to turn into blood red. World’s biggest producer of nickel and palladium Norilsk Nickel has admitted one of its plants takes the responsibility of turning the water into bright red. Last week Russia’s environment ministry started an investigation into the accident. Norilsk Nickel was initially refusing
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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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