STATE ECOLOGICAL INSPECTION FINES AKHTALA MINING-AND-PROCESSING PLANT
arminfo
2007-07-25 19:25:00
State Ecological Inspection of Armenia imposed 200,000 drams fine
on Metal Prince Company belonging to Akhtala mining-and-processing
plant, Deputy Head of State Ecological Inspection Marzpet Kamalyan
told ArmInfo.
He said that inspections revealed release of toxins from the plant’s
overfilled tailing-dump into the River of Debet. "We failed to find
facts to prove that toxins had been released for a long time. Thus,
we could not specify the real environment damage," Kamalyan
said. The inspection demanded repeated ecological examination of
the tailing-dump.
The water monitoring by the Ministry of Nature Protection showed the
official data on concentration of ions of nitrate in the Basin of Debet
River exceed the norms 7.5 times those of sulfate ions – 6.5 times.