{"id":244399,"date":"2013-11-28T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=244399"},"modified":"2013-11-28T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:38:31","slug":"armenian-province-will-be-unliveable-in-30-years-because-of-mining-environmentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/11\/28\/armenian-province-will-be-unliveable-in-30-years-because-of-mining-environmentalist.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Province will be Unliveable in 30 Years Because of Mining: Environmentalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">As a result of mining in the southern Armenian province (<\/span><i style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">marz<\/i><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">) of Syunik, not only the province&#39;s agriculture, but also the health of its residents are endangered, reports local daily&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">Zhoghovurd<\/i><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t<font face=\"verdana, sans-serif\">According to official data, there are 19 tailing dumps in Armenia, though environmentalists assert that there are, in fact, 30 tailing dumps and 450 active mines.<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t<font face=\"verdana, sans-serif\">Greens&#39; Union of Armenia NGO President Hakob Sanasaryan informed the newspaper if the mines continue to be exploited to the extent they are currently, in the near future (in 20&ndash;30 years), Syunik as a region will have no value &mdash; it simply won&#39;t be possible to live there.&nbsp;<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;\">\n\t<font face=\"verdana, sans-serif\">&quot;By the way, trailing dumps generating hazardous waste paid nothing into Armenia&#39;s budget last year for the damage they caused, which is recorded also in the RA Control Chamber&#39;s 2012 report,&quot; reports the paper.<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to official data, there are 19 tailing dumps in Armenia, though environmentalists assert that there are, in fact, 30 tailing dumps and 450 active mines&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20612,12759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}