14:52 November 30, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
The Armenian Environmental Front has lodged a claim to RA Administrative Court against RA Ministry for the Emergency States for not providing the copies of technical safety expert assessment opinions of Amulsar project documentation
18:34 November 27, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Սյունիք | Վայոց ձոր
The owner of a land area in Herher community, Vayots Dzor Region, Barrister Harutyun Baghdasaryan has lodged a file to the Court of General Jurisdiction on Kentron and Marash administrative areas against Lydian Armenia Company. Baghdasaryan is claiming his right to ownership
19:13 October 16, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
"Talk on Modern Mining Practices and The Beyond Zero Harm Framework" event at the American University of Armenia has been canceled due to
14:47 October 16, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր | Երեւան
We learned from the Facebook post by the Acopian Center for the Environment of the American University of Armenia that the university in partnership with Lydain offshore mining company is organizing the public speech of
17:25 October 13, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Լոռի | Վայոց ձոր
The Armenian Environmental Front (AEF) initiative has taken water samples from the area of Tandzut derelict mine and adjacent area water and submitted for lab analyses. As it turned out, the heavy metals in the water exceeded
18:09 September 20, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր | Երեւան
Today the members of Armenian Environmental Front held a protest demonstration in the downtown of Yerevan against Amulsar gold mining project. The protest demonstration launched from Cascade Complex: besides the posters and flyers, the protest demonstrators also
15:45 September 19, 2017 | Ամուլսար
At the 6th Meeting of the Parties of the Aarhus Convention held in Montenegro, the representative of Armenian environmental NGO “Ecological Right” Artur Grigoryan asked the Compliance Committee of the Convention to issue a caution for Armenian government. On August 30 the Administrative Court decided to reject the right to access
16:57 September 14, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
International Finance Corporation of World Bank Group, (IFC), refused from funding Lydian International's Amulsar Project, as the letter addressed to Osvaldo Gratacós, Vice President and CAO, says. The IFC's letter is, as a matter of fact, is a response to the Ombudsman's report on the complaints lodged by the NGOs and the residents
18:31 September 06, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
RA Nature Protection Ministry, as represented by its 'Environmental Impact Expertise Center' SNCO rejected the demand of the environmental
16:26 August 30, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
In line with the ruling of Administrative Court Judge Karen Zarikyan, the plaintiffs on Amulsar case 'EcoRight' and 'EcoDar' NGOs were left out of the further
16:55 August 23, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
Lydian Amulsar Gold Mine Project in Armenia Lacks Proper Environmental Evaluation and Threatens Water Quality From Long-Term Acid Generation
16:31 August 23, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
Lydian International Company has responded to the assessments of international prestigious experts on Amulsar gold mining project.
Reminder: in late July 2017 the All-Armenian Environmental Front Civic Initiative published the assessments of the international experts on
17:05 August 07, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
Armenian Environmental Front (AEF) Civic Initiative, The Greens Union of Armenia, EcoLur, ‘Union for Sustainable Human Development’, ‘Jermuk Development Center’, ‘Environmental Academy’ NGOs have addressed an open letter to Armenian PM Karen Karapetyan and Nature Protection Minister Artsvik Minasyan calling for annulling the positive opinion
14:27 July 27, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Սյունիք | Վայոց ձոր
Now international acclaimed experts in the field have also joined Armenian experts and based on the proposal of the US-based Harout Bronozian, they presented results of three different expertises on this gold project. The results of these researches once again confirm the statement voiced for many years that gold project in Amulsar should not be launched since the assessment carried out by Lydian are extremely incomplete, while the government
16:07 July 25, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Սյունիք | Վայոց ձոր
The Ombudsman's Office of the International Finance Corporation, CAO/IFC (World Bank Group) sent the initial results of the audit on the complaint of incompliance of Amulsar open gold mining project with IFC standards, so as the IFC refused from funding the project. The complaint was submitted to CAO by two residents
15:16 June 28, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր | Երեւան
The court proceedings on the consideration of professional opinions on Amulsar gold mine still continues at RA Administrative Court. The opinions are presented by the Plaintiffs - 12 residents of Gndevaz Community
20:35 June 23, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
Armenian PM Karen Karapetyan expressed an opinion on Amulsar gold mining project at the National Assembly that we won't have a violation of environmental standards. The question was
16:00 June 23, 2017 | Ամուլսար | Վայոց ձոր
The Armenian Government granted another privilege to Lydian Armenia CJSC, which is going to develop Amulsar gold mine exempting the company from import duty
