Environmentalists Demonstrate Against Amulsar Gold Mine Exploitation
Local experts and environmentalists, meanwhile, have been arguing for years that the mine exploitation will cause irreparable harm to the resort city of Jermuk, located some...
Armenian Environmentalists Want to Find Out Reason for Felling Dozens of Rare Oaks in Syunik Reserve
Despite the claims to the contrary by the Armenian Ministry of Nature, the local population of the Syunik province insists that a large number ...
Armenian Environmentalists Concerned with Nepheline Syenite Development Project
The mine is located in a seismically unstable zone, where the probable magnitude of the quakes may reach 9 points out of Richter’s 12-point scale. The project says that the mine area is deprived of...
Dakota Precedent Not Applicable in Amulsar, Environmentalist Says
To quote the godfather of the Amulsar project, former prime minister Tigran Sargsyan, 'Let them emigrate; should they instead stay and revolt? People in Gndevaz have already...
The End of Progressive Neoliberalism
Until recently, however, the chief response to the crisis was social protest—dramatic and lively, to be sure, but largely ephemeral. Political systems, by contrast, seemed...
Armenian Environmentalists Protest Ameriabank's Financing of Amulsar Gold Project
He added that it was strange that Ruben Vardanyan, one of the founders of Ameriabank who is a major supporter of various environmental programs, such as the creation of eco-villages throughout...
Activists Gather in Yerevan in Solidarity with Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters
The we also face similar problems, so we realize the importance of international solidarity. We have handed over a letter to US ambassador Richard Mills, raising also the issue of racism since the pipeline project runs ...
Environmentalists Stage Protest Over Exploitation of Amulsar Gold Mine
The demonstrators, who are concerned that the mining project will negatively affect Armenia’s ecological and national security, held up posters that read “Go to Cyanide Hell,” “Water or Cyanide?” “No Mining at Amulsar...
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia Agree to Join Efforts in Addressing Regional Environmental Issues
Azerbaijan's and Georgia's Greens parties, as well as a number of Armenian NGOs, signed a joint agreement on sustainable development in the...