Cities

While a company, having the ambition of possessing the largest trade and entertainment center in Armenia does the presentation of its project, more than 600 people, having gardens in that very territory, complain against the compensation policy of the company.

While answering the question about the development of the Ring Boulevard in the interview with “Aravot” Head of Environmental Department at Yerevan City Hall Avet Martirosyan particularly stated: “A new swimming pool is being constructed instead of the old one on the 5th section of the Ring Boulevard.

A discussion was held at the Aarhus Center in Yerevan on the mass tree cutting in Gymuri. Gevorg Petrosyan, the Coordinator of the Aarhus Center in Gyumri and the President of “Biosofia” NGO, presented the essence of the issue and the measures taken. “Association of Consumers” was the initiator for discussions.

“The fact of risk for residents of Shahumyan Region in Kapan where Deno Gold Mining Company is exploiting the mine has always been present....

In February of 2008 the employees at Sotq deposit went on strike demanding better working conditions and increase in wages. The administration of GPM GOLD Company, the deposit’s owner, promised to settle all the issues, and the employees got back to work.

“GЕО Alaverdi” report drawn up in the frames of UNEP/ GRID-Arendal gave rise to serious concerns in Alaverdi, particularly in Alaverdi concerning general description of the urban environment.

You can find “GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT” report on www.ecolur.org in the section of “Independent Expert Assessment”.

There is a hill near Hrazdan Town. This is the site where ferruginous deposit will be opened and ore will be mined through explosions. Here a processing plant will be constructed as well.

The presentation of “Geo Alaverdi: Environment and Urban Development” report was held in the Aarhus Center in Alaverdi on 28 August.

On 3 September, at about 9 a.m., the dendrocide kept on occurring in the crossing section of Cherazi and Spandaryan streets, which seems to be close to its end. Surprisingly 20 policemen were watching after these barbaric actions, moreover, their number was bigger than that of workers.

The residents in Alaverdi Town are covered with 25 thousand tons of sulphuric anhydrite per year. Moreover, besides sulphuric anhydrite, the emissions contain 38,6 tons of a wide range of metals, mostly copper and lead. In practice, the whole town is in the first zone under the impact of the emissions by the Copper Molybdenum Combine in Alaverdi where the concentration of emissions can exceed the permissible limit by 30 times.

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 issue of unemployment is very actual for us, it’s something terrible. In the past we had large industrial objects. At present we had nothing, everything has closed down. The people are mainly engaged with trade and agriculture,” said Volodya Khloyan, Mayor of Vardenis.

Interview with Alaverdi Mayor Artur Nalbandyan

The hill in the background, looming above this Hrazdan city park, is the proposed location for a metal-processing plant.

13-year-old Arman inhabiting in Sotq Village is a disabled person: his right arm is crooked. His mother Tamara grows her two children alone, at the same time she takes care of her old mother bedridden. Nobody gives her a helping hand: her husband has died.

Those who destroy the green areas in Gyumri think of neww methods to carry out a new “dendrocide”. This new “method”, as one can see in the photos, can simply be called “Lethal Loop”.

The overflow of the Debed River in the spring has been a scourge for residents of the so-called “Kamchatka” part of the “Sanahin Station” district of Alaverdi for years. The waters that overflow from the river have not only covered the parks, but have also reached the yards of buildings.