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RESIDENTS OF ARMENIAN VILLAGE PROTEST CONSTRUCTION OF HYDROELECTRIC PLANT
03.03.2014 21:11 epress.am
On March 1, about 100 villagers gathered in the center of Karbi,
a village in Armenia's Aragatsotn marz (province), to meet with
Aragatsotn marzpet (regional governor) Sargis Sahakyan, the village
mayor, and a representative of the developer company building a
hydroelectric plant near the villages of Karbi and Ohanavan. Several
members of the Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PAEF) were also
present at the meeting.
According to a statement issued by PAEF, Karbi residents are against
the construction. They argue that the a hydroelectric plant will
consume so much water from the Aparan reservoir that there won't be
any irrigation water for their apple orchards. Meanwhile, sometimes
there is not enough irrigation water for them even today.
According to the environmentalists, during the nearly two-hour long
meeting, there was still no response to the question of whether there
is a project under which this construction should be carried out.
"The villagers themselves didn't know eventually what is being built:
a hydroelectric plant, a waterline, a reservoir, a fishpond, or
something else? The marzpet and the representative of the developer,
on one hand, insisted that what is being built is not a nuclear power
plant, and on the other hand, guaranteed that the construction of a
hydroelectric plant will not reduce the villagers' irrigation water,"
PAEF wrote on its Facebook page.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/03/residents-of-armenian-village-protest-construction-of-hydroelectric-plant.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEfLzaLUTA
03.03.2014 21:11 epress.am
On March 1, about 100 villagers gathered in the center of Karbi,
a village in Armenia's Aragatsotn marz (province), to meet with
Aragatsotn marzpet (regional governor) Sargis Sahakyan, the village
mayor, and a representative of the developer company building a
hydroelectric plant near the villages of Karbi and Ohanavan. Several
members of the Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PAEF) were also
present at the meeting.
According to a statement issued by PAEF, Karbi residents are against
the construction. They argue that the a hydroelectric plant will
consume so much water from the Aparan reservoir that there won't be
any irrigation water for their apple orchards. Meanwhile, sometimes
there is not enough irrigation water for them even today.
According to the environmentalists, during the nearly two-hour long
meeting, there was still no response to the question of whether there
is a project under which this construction should be carried out.
"The villagers themselves didn't know eventually what is being built:
a hydroelectric plant, a waterline, a reservoir, a fishpond, or
something else? The marzpet and the representative of the developer,
on one hand, insisted that what is being built is not a nuclear power
plant, and on the other hand, guaranteed that the construction of a
hydroelectric plant will not reduce the villagers' irrigation water,"
PAEF wrote on its Facebook page.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/03/residents-of-armenian-village-protest-construction-of-hydroelectric-plant.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEfLzaLUTA