{"id":282874,"date":"2017-12-01T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282874"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:33:44","slug":"villagers-in-armenia-protest-against-mine-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/12\/01\/villagers-in-armenia-protest-against-mine-exploitation.html","title":{"rendered":"Villagers in Armenia Protest Against Mine Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/protest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282872\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/protest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents of 5 villages in Armenia\u2019s Lori province today held a demonstration against the exploitation of a <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/11\/22\/company-wants-to-exploit-mine-in-armenia-through-cheating-locals-insist.html\">gold-polymetallic mine<\/a><\/span><\/strong> at the mountain Shekaghbyur by MIRAM mining company. A group of villagers from Advin, Mghart, Arevatsag, Aygehat and Odzun blocked the entrance to a building in the center of Mghart, where representatives of MIRAM were to hold a public hearing to present their mining plans.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators held placards reading \u201cNature Is Our Gold,\u201d \u201cLeave Ardvin Alone,\u201d Ardin Is an Armenian Sacred Site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the protesting villagers said in an interview with Epress.am that upon seeing the blocked entrance, officials from the Ministry of Nature Protection and MIRAM representatives attempted to enter the building through another entrance, which was also prevented by the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>One of the villagers\u2019 main concerns is that after the mine is put into operation, their communities will be deprived of drinking and irrigation water, which will inevitably hinder the locals\u2019 agricultural activities. \u201cWater will be cut off once they start blasting. Together with the former village head, we\u2019d in the past go door-to-door, asking for help in providing the village with sufficient water. Who helped us? No one,\u201d of the protesters argued.<\/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>One of the villagers\u2019 main concerns is that after the mine is put into operation, their communities will be deprived of drinking and irrigation water, which will inevitably hinder &#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":282873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66037,65991,65979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282874"}],"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=282874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}