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Letter to ADB: Improvement Project of Kapan Water Supply Chain Failed

IFC CAO (Compliance Advisor Ombudsman) released its appraisal on incompliance of Amulsar open gold mining project funded by Lydian International to IFC principles and standards of social and environmental responsibility.

According to the presented project (Amulsar) and the concluded contract, only gold and silver will be extracted in the mine. The project submitted to expertise should either have completely excluded the presence of other elements and naturally studies should have been carried out in this direction or submitted information about their possible presence. Naturally, if there are other elements, they should be extracted in heap leaching, if extraction is not ensured, they are classified as losses and these losses must be

Kapan Mayor Ashot Hayrapetyan expressed his readiness to cycle to work, as he said at the presentation of “Bicycle Kapan: Introduction of Sustainable Vehicles into Kapan Town Community” project workpackage

“Regional Monitoring Institute” NGO has issued a claim to Administrative Court against Nature Protection Ministry, which says, “On 23 October “Regional Monitoring Institute” NGO has filed a claim to Administrative Court against

. “Armenian Water and Sewerage Company” CJSC and the Municipality of Kapan assure that in 2015 the residents of Kapan will have all day long and high quality water supply system. After the launch of the aforementioned programs a great number of issues arose

The water in Araks River is not sufficient to construct Meghri HPP with 130 MW capacity: the reason is the construction of reservoirs on the Araks River by Turkey, as Energy and Natural Resources Deputy Minister Hayk Harutyunyan said

There are 5 SHPPs in our area, both in our area and in Sarnakunq. We don’t even know who’s who: our land areas are attached to each other. We can see that all the spring and rivers are getting dry

The Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PEF) civic initiative has received an alarm signal that the river flowing through the neighborhood

"Armgyughshinnakhagits" LLC has addressed a letter to David Dole, Country Director of Asian Development Bank, which is reply to the letter by Arshavir Khalapyan, President of “Regional Monitoring Institute” NGO, addressed to David Dole

The new owner of Vorotan Hydropower Plant Complex, "Contour Global" Company, can take out loans by pledging the reservoir dams in the hydrocascade, as the company Armenian Representative Ara Hovsepyan mentioned

Vorotan Hydropower Plant Complex will increase the price of the electricity sold to ENA by 4 AMD, as “Contour Global” Armenian representative Ara Hovsepyan, the new owner of Vorotan Hydropower Plant Complex

“Zangezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine” CJSC is planning to increase mining volumes of Qajaran copper and molybdenum mine and make it annually 22 million tons. In this regard, the company will hold a public discussion on changing the mining project of Qajaran copper and molybdenum mine reserves, Syunik Region, (including change in mining volumes expansion of mine galleries, prolongation of permit duration) at 15:00 on

Over 50 trees have been cut down in 1500 cum areas included in “Shikahogh” state reserve, a part of “Zangezour” biospheric complex and its adjacent areas

The Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PEF) civic initiative has beaten an alarm signal that illegal tree felling has been carried out

Studies in forest sector in recent 10 years are few, while figures contradict each other starting from the forest cover: so far the official figure is from 1991 – 11.2% forest-covered area. Some official documents say this figure is 8%, but according

“Regional Monitoring Institute” local NGO has sent a letter to David Dole, the Asian Development Bank resident representative in Armenia. The letter says,

The Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PEF) civic initiative’s video shooting in the area of Artsvanik tailing dump owned by ZCMC showed once again that the wastewater from