RURAL COMMUNITY IN SYUNIK JEOPARDIZED BY METALLURGICAL PLANTS
Armenpress
KAPAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS: The population of Syunik rural community in
south-eastern province of the same name incurs huge damages caused by
the tailing pits of the Zangezur and Kapan metallurgical plants. Their
health, their cattle, their land and their orchards are under constant
threat because of regular breakdowns at the pits, resulting in the
flow of industrial wastes into canals polluting irrigation water.
The government has released 1.5 million drams for elimination of the
aftereffects, the plant pays compensations but due to new breakdowns
the community continues to sustain new damages. The community’s
population suffers also from a lime-pit near their village.
The Zangezur and Kapan plants and adjacent mines are located near the
town of Kajaran in the southeastern Syunik region. The mountainous
area has Armenia’s largest deposits of copper and molybdenum ores.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress