{"id":265148,"date":"2015-05-20T16:35:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=265148"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:35:46","slug":"armenian-nature-protection-minister-not-informed-about-public-discontent-with-gold-mining-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/20\/armenian-nature-protection-minister-not-informed-about-public-discontent-with-gold-mining-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Nature Protection Minister Not Informed About Public Discontent With Gold Mining Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia has issued a positive environmental expertise opinion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/30\/protest-against-gold-mine-police-push-protesters-away-from-hotel-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Amulsar open pit gold mining project<\/span><\/a> taking into consideration the positive opinions of the proper communities, the decisions of the Aldermen&#39;s Councils, and the desire of the people, Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan said in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolur.org\/en\/news\/officials\/nature-protection-minister-on-issuing-positive-opinion-to-amulsar-project\/7320\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">EcoLur<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The community presents all environmental problems. All the submitted environmental problems are reviewed by the environmental experts and invited specialists. If they state that no environmental problem will arise, I should, naturally, believe them and trust that&#39;s just how it is,&rdquo; the Minister said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t[Armenia] has an opportunity to develop. It&#39;s wrong not to use our resources. We should use our opportunities and not allow private investors and entrepreneurs to act as they please; they must abide the law. When everybody acts in accordance with the law, we will have great successes, Aramayis Grigoryan added.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn reply to EcoLur&#39;s remark that the villagers have <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolur.org\/en\/news\/mining\/administrative-court-partially-turned-down-claim-issued-against-amulsar-project\/7288\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">filed a suit<\/span><\/a> against the Amulsar project, the Minister said he was not informed about that.<\/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>[Armenia] has an opportunity to develop. It&#8217;s wrong not to use our resources. We should use our opportunities and not allow private investors and entrepreneurs to act as they please; they must abide the law&#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":257003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18034,55180,53258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265148"}],"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=265148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}