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““Kapuyt” mine is located close to the springs of Gomq and Artavan communities drinking water and any mining will destroy them,”

The impact on the quality of crops and fertility is not assessed. I have an environment survey of another similar mine situated on the same height when the dust scattering from the mine and tailing dump contaminated the harvest of orchards

As a result of exploiting "Arpa 2" and "Arpa 3", "Jermuk HPP-2" SHPPs the Arpa River together with its stream will appear under load of SHPPs on an area of 10734 m especially if we take into account the fact

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

New violations of the Armenian legislation in case of Amulsar gold mining project have been detected, as Environmental Lawyer Nazeli Vardanyan, Chairman of “Forests of Armenia” NGO said during

EcoLur has received the reply of Nature Protection Ministry on the tree felling carried out next to Yeghegis River in the administrative area of Hermon village, Vayots Dzor Region.

Her Her Community Head Andranik Abrahamyan is content with the operation of SHPPs in the territory of the community. In reply to the question how SHPP construction matter was solved and whether

On 17 October EcoLur’s camera fixed how the water from Arpa-Sevan tunnel flows into the Yeghegis River, where a cascade of SHPPs operate.

On 17 October EcoLur's camera fixed hundreds of felled down tree stubs near Yeghegis River in the administrative area of Hermon Community, Vayots Dzor Region. It was clear that healthy and young trees have been cut down. Th stubs of the felled down

Artavan resident Hrayr Hovhannisyan said that the SHPP is being constructed on the water distribution point of the village and the villagers will experience serious problems

Jermuk tourism town residents, Vayots Dzor Region, speak about their waterfall named "Mermaid's Hair" in

Jermuk Forestry Enterprise needs to return its status. This proposal was made at the meeting with Jermuk Community, Vayots Dzor Region, in the frames of ENPI EAST FLEG program.

Unlike the local administration Jermuk resort town residents Vayots Dzor Region don’t want to sacrifice their town to mining industry. “One of our main issues is combating against Amulsar project,” Jermuk

International Finance Corporation team (“IFC” part of the World Bank Group) visited Armenia and Amulsar area from September 28 – to October 1, as part of its annual supervisory visit

Gndevaz villager, Vayots Dzor Region, has beaten an alarm signal to EcoLur in regard with the community sewage breakdown and the stink coming from Gndevaz poultry factory guano. 'The sewage line

Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan paid a working visit to Vayots Dzor Region. The environmental problems in the region were discussed during

In the framework of the project entitled “Support to the Reforms of SHPPs through a Dialogue between the Public and The Ministry of Nature Protection of the RA for the Purpose of River Ecosystem Use” the expert group visited “Khachardzan” SHPP. As a result of the monitoring the expert group found out: