EcoLur
Lydian Company, the implementer of Amulsar gold project, has filed two court claims to RA Administrative Court against Environmental and Mining Inspection Body appealing the two decisions the Inspection had reached. The court has accepted the claims into the proceedings.
In his interview with EcoLur, Inspection Body Head Arthur Grigoryan gave details, 'Environmental and Mining Inspection Body had carried out inspections at 'Lydian Armenia' CJSC and drawn up an act based on the newly emerged ecological factors and other violations, including violations connected with illegal soil management. The company had filed a complaint to the Inspection Body to overturn this act, but the Inspection Body thinks that this complaint is not a substantial one and reached a decision to reject it. Now Lydian Company is appealing the decision on the rejection in court.
Together with the inspection act, the company had been given a directive to refrain from any mining-related operations. The company is appealing this directive with its second court claim.
Lydian International has posted a press release on it website about these court claims, where João Carrêlo, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lydian, stated, “We are confident that the Court will rule in Lydian’s favor based on studies concluded by the Ministry of Nature Protection that conclusively established no basis for Mr. Grigoryan’s assertions of “new ecological factors” and Mr. Grigoryan’s inherent conflict of interest that lead to this lawsuit.”
Reminder: Environmental and Mining Inspection Body had detected red-listed Apollo butterfly, as well as red-listed Acantholimon caryophyllaceum Boiss. The Inspection Body had proposed RA Nature Protection Ministry to annul the state expert assessment opinion issued to Amulsar project. The Ministry reached a decision to carry out its own examinations, which lasted one day, as RA Nature Protection Minister said in his interview with EcoLur. During this one-day-long examinations, the working group established upon RA Nature Protection Minister's decree hadn't detected any red-listed species.
December 21, 2018 at 19:02