EcoLur
Hrachya Avagyan, Dr. in Geological Sciences, is sure that no oil will be prospected in Lake Sevan basin. “The whole basin of Lake Sevan has lava origin. I don’t think an oil mine will be prospected. Still in the Soviet period 108-100 wells were drilled to find oil in the territory of Armenia, but nothing was mentioned about Lake Sevan basin. It’s senseless to speak about oil. I’m sure they won’t find it,” said Hrachya Avagyan in his interview with EcoLur.
As it’s known “Blackstars Energy Armenia” LLC is going to prospect oil and gas in the areas of Hayravanq, Tsaghkashen and Noradus villages dealing with fishing in the basin of Lake Sevan. The public hearings of the project submitted by the company were held in Gavar Town on 30 January. Only Tsaghkashen community was aware of the hearings out of all project affected communities: two representatives of the rural municipality took part in the hearings.
“It would be good, if they prospect oil and gas, it will save our village,” Tsaghkazhen Community Head Seryozha Sargsyan said in his interview with EcoLur. Noradus Community Head Murad Harutyunyan also didn’t oppose to prospecting oil in the area of its community, “Is there anything bad? We will be a rich village.” Only Hayravanq Community Head David Badoyan was concerned, “It won’t be desirable not to have it in the plough land areas.”
February 11, 2015 at 14:41