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
Yesterday Hetq Online printed a disturbing, even perplexing report of trees being cut in Tsitsernakaberd Park, not far from the Genocide Memorial. Several lamps that light the walkways there were smashed as well.
Here’s the full report:
“I saw the smashed street lamps. When I looked hard, I realized that next to each smashed street lamp there are [...]
There is an excellent, concise article on Hetq Online briefing readers about the situation surrounding the threat to the Teghut Forest, located in the northern part of the Tavush region.
As you may know, the forest is scheduled to be felled in a business plan absurdly approved by Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection. Three organizations which [...]
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