Four internationally famous experts (from Australia, USA and Canada), with the help of American-Armenian Harut Bronozian, have been researching documents from Lydian International’s website since July of last year and concluded in their evaluations, that Amulsar gold mine project poses various environmental risks. On May 16 2018 they presented their…
On the 19th of January human rights defender Arthur Sakunts posted on his Facebook page: “Reliable sources informed us that cracks have appeared on the tailing dam in Teghut. As a result, tailing wastes have been leaking into Debed River for at least 4 days now. This can turn into…
Photos by Bnamard and armeniasputnik After Armenian Environmental Front published an article on construction of new landfill in Armenia, it wrote an open letter to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Investment Fund (EIB) and EU Neighbourhood Investment Facility calling to include the component of waste recycling in the landfill construction…
On October 30, 2017 Ann Maest, PhD, “Buka Environmental” presented a Memorandum titled “Evaluation of Geochemical Characterization Results and Proposed Additional Studies for the Amulsar Project, Armenia”. Her contracting party is chemical/environmental engineer Harry Bronozian. Hereby, we present the summary of the evaluation. The full version is available in the…
Photo from Global GMO free Coalition GMO Free Armenia civil initiative and March Against Monsanto, Armenia! - civil initiative wrote an open letter to Armenia’s Minister of Agriculture Ignati Arakelyan, Armenia’s Prime Minister Karen Karapteyan and the U.S. Ambassador in Armenia Richard M. Mills. The content of the letter below: "To Armenia’s Minister…
On the 26th of October 2017 Armenian Environmental Front civil initiative sent a letter to EBRD, as well as to its office in Armenia regarding EBRD's financing of Lydian International and its gold mining project in Armenia which raises a lot of concerns among the civil society and environmental groups…