Today my wife Anushik attended a protest held opposing the plans for a massive copper mining project. It was held in front of the Government Building on Republic Square in late morning, then the protesters marched to the Presidential Palace. I covered the controversy surrounding this project in my two previous posts, so read [...]
This video depicts a confrontation between environmental activists and Syunik governor Surik Khachatryan in Kajaran (the video is in Armenian).
Basically they are saying what I wrote in my previous post, emphasizing that the extracted copper and the profits associated with its sale on the market will go to Germany, where the parent mining company is [...]
Photo of Sotk gold mine courtesy RFE/RL
Yesterday an article was published by RFE/RL confirming that a controversial plan to exploit gold mines near Lake Sevan’s shores was going ahead as planned. And supposedly the government is uninformed about it.
Villagers in the area are rightly up in arms about it since Lake Sevan has already [...]
This morning I was awakened by the patter of a rain shower, the second one in a week. It hadn’t been raining for the entire summer, which was brutally hot. For the most part the temperature was averaging in the high 90s Fahrenheit for two consecutive months. I don’t remember it being hotter in Yerevan.
Usually [...]
I just read an article on RFE/RL reporting that the main financier of the proposed environmentally devastating mining project in Armenia’s Teghut Forest has put a hold in transferring funds. The Russian bank VTB was set to provide the Armenian Copper Program (ACP) with a $280 million loan to get started with mining projects.
That decision [...]
All photos of Aghveran, Kotayk, Armenia by Christian Garbis
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