{"id":282460,"date":"2017-10-12T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282460"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:17:09","slug":"oil-processing-plant-constructed-in-armenian-town-without-proper-impact-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/12\/oil-processing-plant-constructed-in-armenian-town-without-proper-impact-assessment.html","title":{"rendered":"Oil Processing Plant Constructed in Armenian Town Without Proper Impact Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ArmOil company, the official representative of Lubrex in Armenia, is constructing a petroleum processing plant in the town of Yeghvard in Armenia\u2019s Kotayk province, <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecolur.org\/en\/news\/air\/armoil-company-constructing-oil-processing-plant-without-environmental-expert-assessment\/9569\/\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">EcoLur.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> reports, stressing that the construction works are being carried out without any environmental impact expert assessment.<\/p>\n<p>EcoLur points out that petroleum processing production is subject to environmental expertise and, according to the Armenian law On Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise, is considered under the riskiest &#8216;A&#8217; category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Environmental Impact Assessment Expertise Center SNCO told EcoLur, ArmOil company hasn&#8217;t submitted any project for assessment and, consequently, it doesn&#8217;t have any environmental impact assessment opinion,\u201d the website writes, adding that the plant construction has caused a big uproar in Yeghvard, where locals are convinced ArmOil\u2019s future activities could result in an \u201cenvironmental disaster\u201d for the town.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/armtimes.com\/hy\/article\/121898\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Armtimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong> posted a video in which residents of the Nati district in Yeghvard &#8211; nearly 80 families &#8211; in particular complain about the construction as it is being conducted mere 50 meters from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started construction last year. No one, including the local residents, was told about their plans. If oil production is planned, the locals should have been made aware of that. People, children live here, and oil is flammable,\u201d Nati resident Artur Tumasyan says.<\/p>\n<p>The locals, he continues, do not have any concrete information about the owners of the company: \u201cWe can\u2019t claim this information is completely reliable, but back when the plant stopped operating, we learned that Gagik Tsarukyan had invested 50% in this business, and that\u2019s when the construction continued.\u201d<\/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>As Environmental Impact Assessment Expertise Center SNCO told EcoLur, ArmOil company hasn&#8217;t submitted any project for assessment and, consequently, it doesn&#8217;t&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65991,66047],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282460"}],"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=282460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}