May 31, 2011 at 14:27 | Cities | Kotayk
‘These operating enterprises harm and intoxicate air, nature and soil with their emitted toxic substances and gases, as well as harm our harvest, who knows drastic increase in diseases is not conditioned with this factor,’ the locals raise this problem, “we demand to take certain measures to relieve the damage caused. We don’t know whom to apply to solve our problem.”
May 31, 2011 at 13:16 | Biodiversity | Kotayk
But director of the state-owned Khosrov reserve Vorontsov Barseghyan told ArmeniaNow that there was nothing odd in charging money from visitors. He said the current entrance fee of 3,500 AMD had been set by the Ministry of Environment and was even low and could not offset the costs of their services.
May 30, 2011 at 18:13 | Biodiversity | Kotayk
Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia tries to recover the status of a state reserve to Gilan Wildlife Preserve. On May 30 Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan made this statement in his meeting with a number of NGOs on May 30.
May 26, 2011 at 14:59 | Mining | Kotayk
The Chinese Ambassador to Armenia Tian Changchun told the Initiative Group fighting against Hrazan iron mine development, that the “Fortune Oil” has nothing in common with the People’s Republic of China.
May 25, 2011 at 15:17 | Mining | Kotayk
they will meet with the Chinese Ambassador to Armenia at 16:00 p.m. today - on 25 May
May 24, 2011 at 13:50 | Waste | Kotayk
More than young people took part in the garbage collection and their efforts resulted in more than 120 bags of household garbage that have been accumulated in the forest zone for many years.
May 20, 2011 at 12:27 | Mining | Kotayk
Residents of the town of Hrazdan are planning to demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy in Yerevan on May 26 at 3pm to voice their opposition to the operation of a local mine by the Chinese firm Fortune Oil.
May 19, 2011 at 14:30 | Mining | Kotayk | Vayots dzor
Amoulsar gold-polymetallic mine opencast development is also impermissible.
May 10, 2011 at 14:17 | Mining | Kotayk
Paramount Gold Mining Ltd., a company owned by RA National Assembly President Hovik Abrahamyan and MO Tigran Arzakantsyan, was granted license to mine the Meghradzor gold mine’s Lusatchur section in Kotayk Marz.
May 10, 2011 at 12:35 | Mining | Kotayk
Tsaghkadzor Municipality Culture, Sport and Tourism Department Chief Specialist Gerasim Mkrtchyan is also concerned with the news about Harzdan iron mine development.
May 03, 2011 at 11:21 | Mining | Kotayk
Recently environmentalists have a document in their hands which says still one year ago the project worked out by “Lernayin Harstutyun” LLC on gold recovery factory has passed expert assessment, while the owners have foreseen to construct a gold recovery factory and tailing dump in “Hrazdan” industrial zone which is 5 k far from Hrazdan Town.
May 02, 2011 at 16:02 | Officials | Kotayk
Chinese Fortune Oil Company hasn’t paid Armenian “Nagin” Company US$ 24 millions for obtaining 35% of the company’s shares.
April 30, 2011 at 11:36 | Mining | Kotayk
Aarhus Center in Hrazdan and other stakeholders have visited the State College of Hrazdan to meet with more than 80 students and lectures.
April 27, 2011 at 13:28 | Biodiversity | Armavir | Kotayk
Zoo animals in Hrazdan Town are starving. Only 40 animals have remained out of 80.
April 22, 2011 | Mining | Kotayk
First of all, the Chinese will start developing Hrazdan iron mine (Kotayk Region, Armenia) located approximately 55 km far away from Yerevan. Not far away from the mine are located drinking water springs that supply both Yerevan and a number of other towns and villages.
April 22, 2011 | Mining | Kotayk | Syunik
The appropriate department of Energy and Natural Resources Ministry could give answers to our questions in five minutes. Nevertheless, only after 11 days we received the following reply from Ministry Staff Head:
April 20, 2011 | Air | Kotayk
From the early morning the sky in Hrazdan has been covered with yellow dust and those who called us said they had problems with breathing though they didn’t know whether there was any danger or not.
April 18, 2011 | Waste | Kotayk
“Yeghvard” Water Users Company Head M. Hovhannisyan assures each year several million drams are spent on Arzni-Shamiram canal and espepcially on cleaning inter-household systems from garbage and manure, pollution level is so high that workers even refuse from cleaning canals with the sum of money designed and demand higher salaries.
