EcoLur
Nobody wants to take responsibility for the burial ground in Madan full of arsenic and other toxic wastes. Vallex Company represented by its subsidiary ACP Company keeps on emptying the wastes in the burial ground in Madan, but the responsibility was shuffled off to its former relative, Manes Company. The history of “Manes-Vallex” Company is not hard to recall, when it obtained the Copper Smelting Combine in Alaverdi and concession for deposit development.
Then the company split up: Vallex became a company group and founded its subsidiary АСР company to exploit the Combine in Alaverdi, “Base Metals” Company operating in Nagorno Karabakh and eventually Teghout. Manes Company remained in shadow and is modestly engaged with the import of Dell computers. Manes Company took no actions for the security of the burial ground. ACP Company takes no measures either, as it shuffled off the responsibility for the state in the burial ground. At present the intoxicated territory is not fenced in and covered. The emptied wastes are taken by heavy machinery as ordinary garbage. While the company is saving its money, cows and other cattle from neighboring villages graze near the burial ground in Magadan eating the grass full of toxic compounds. By the way, we were assured in Alaverdi, that they don’t buy any meat from these villages, as they personally know the sellers. According to hearsay, this meat is taken and sold to farther places, Yerevan, for example.
Still one hope for the Ministry of Emergency of RA, where Anush Evoyan, the Coordinator for the Aarhus Center in Alaverdi, sent a request to carry out an investigation and to submit the expert opinion to elaborate security measures for the burial ground.
September 09, 2009