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Despite protests of environmentalists, Mego Gold Company gets
permission to launch construction of third Tukhmanuk tailing dump
by Karina Manukyan
Tuesday, September 2, 16:44
Despite protests of environmentalists, Mego Gold Company gets a
permission to launch the third Tukhmanuk tailing dump.
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Environmentalist Greta Gabrielyan told reporters, Tuesday, the Nature
Protection Ministry of Armenia approved the Tukhmanuk tailing dump
project's Environment Impact Assessment on 30 June. Meanwhile, in the
following 1.5 month, environmentalists could not get official
information on whether the project would be approved or not. In fact,
they learned about the project's approval on 23 August from the
website of Global Gold Mining.
"We deal with a unique situation when the project is approved amid
heated protests of the residents of the Melik community, where the
tailing dump will be built," says lawyer Arthur Grigoryan. According
to him, the villagers have already sent a letter to the minister and
asked him to visit Melik community to get first- hand view of the
situation. The villages alarm that the two old tailing dumps were not
recultivated, which may cause risks of soil pollution.
The project caused displeasure both of ecologists and local residents.
In particular, "Mega gold" company did not implement recultivation
work at the two tailing dumps of Tukhmanuk, which contains the risk of
heavy metals penetration in soil.
Last year ecologists called on Armenian Prosecutor General's Office to
revise the license on open pit mining of Tukhmanuk. Mego Gold Company
(subsidiary of GGM) was to submit a new project after two years of
open pit mining and start close pit mining. However, environmentalists
say the company managed to somehow extend the license for open pit
mining.
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From: A. Papazian
permission to launch construction of third Tukhmanuk tailing dump
by Karina Manukyan
Tuesday, September 2, 16:44
Despite protests of environmentalists, Mego Gold Company gets a
permission to launch the third Tukhmanuk tailing dump.
'
Environmentalist Greta Gabrielyan told reporters, Tuesday, the Nature
Protection Ministry of Armenia approved the Tukhmanuk tailing dump
project's Environment Impact Assessment on 30 June. Meanwhile, in the
following 1.5 month, environmentalists could not get official
information on whether the project would be approved or not. In fact,
they learned about the project's approval on 23 August from the
website of Global Gold Mining.
"We deal with a unique situation when the project is approved amid
heated protests of the residents of the Melik community, where the
tailing dump will be built," says lawyer Arthur Grigoryan. According
to him, the villagers have already sent a letter to the minister and
asked him to visit Melik community to get first- hand view of the
situation. The villages alarm that the two old tailing dumps were not
recultivated, which may cause risks of soil pollution.
The project caused displeasure both of ecologists and local residents.
In particular, "Mega gold" company did not implement recultivation
work at the two tailing dumps of Tukhmanuk, which contains the risk of
heavy metals penetration in soil.
Last year ecologists called on Armenian Prosecutor General's Office to
revise the license on open pit mining of Tukhmanuk. Mego Gold Company
(subsidiary of GGM) was to submit a new project after two years of
open pit mining and start close pit mining. However, environmentalists
say the company managed to somehow extend the license for open pit
mining.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectidÖ6D33E0-329E-11E4-AEA60EB7C0D21663
From: A. Papazian