{"id":253254,"date":"2014-05-13T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253254"},"modified":"2014-05-13T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:10:30","slug":"armenian-environmentalists-propose-new-laws-in-mining-sector-letters-not-delivered-to-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/13\/armenian-environmentalists-propose-new-laws-in-mining-sector-letters-not-delivered-to-pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Environmentalists Propose New Laws in Mining Sector: Letters Not Delivered to PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Since the Armenian government has a new leader, who visits various places and makes big promises, the Greens&#39; Union of Armenia has decided to familiarize him with an important environmental issue &mdash; the matter of legislation in the mining industry &mdash; in the hope that the newly appointed prime minister will take clear action. This was conveyed to Epress.am by Greens&#39; Union of Armenia leader Hakob Sanasaryan.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn April 29, Sanasaryan sent a letter to PM Hovik Abrahamyan, but about two weeks later, he found out the letter had not been delivered to the head of government.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;They store the letters in a drawer. They told me they will deliver it to the ministers; that is, the letter won&#39;t even get to the prime minister. A similar thing happened in 2008, when Tigran Sargsyan became prime minister. I also wrote a letter then, but six weeks later it turned out the letter had not been delivered to the prime minister,&quot; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the open letter, the environmentalist described the unjustified privileges mining companies have in Armenia: they don&#39;t pay for damage to the land or water system or for geological surveys; they are exempt from paying tax on tailings, as well as on the water consumed; and they also have import and export privileges.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We have passed laws [in Armenia] that legalize robbery. If the prime minister really wants to change something, he has to start with this. Let them introduce new laws in parliament,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith a call to introduce legislative initiatives in this sector, Sanasaryan sent open letters also to all the parliamentary factions, having greater hopes on those who call themselves opposition parties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the open letter, the environmentalist described the unjustified privileges mining companies have in Armenia: they don&#8217;t pay for damage to the land or water system or&#8230;<!-- 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":251091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20185,36835,19894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253254"}],"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=253254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}