Oil and gas prospecting near Sevan will be devastating for the lake, Head of the Association for Sustainable Development Karine Danielyan told ArmInfo.
Earlier, EcoLur Ngo reported tha the Nature Protection Ministry issued a positive opinion to "Blackstars Energy Armenia" LLC for prospecting oil and gas in the areas of Hayravanq, Tsaghkashen and Noradus villages dealing with fishing in the basin of Lake Sevan. The permission is granted for a period of 2015-2016. The activities will cost $11 million.
Meanwhile, Armenian environmentalists already alarm of the possible impacts of the prospecting. "First, it runs contrary to the Law on Lake Sevan. Second, we can already see the negative impacts of oil prospecting in the Caspian Sea. We are sure that such activity will be disastrous for Lake Sevan," Danielyan said. She is sure that environmentalists will not allow oil and gas prospecting to be launched in the basin of the Lake.