"EcoLur" reports that Ministry of Nature Protection RA is performing large-scale inspections at Akhtala ore mining plant.
The inspections were launched after "EcoLur"'s alarm signal on the plant's heavy equipment in Mets Airum community. According to the news, hills, landscapes, community grasslands are being taken down and soil is being moved out in spades.
The activities have currently been suspended; the equipment has been taken away from the territory. The Ministry is to report on the inspection results.
To remind, the inhabitants of Mets Airum rural community are demonstrating against the plans on building a new Akhtala ore mining plant tailing dump. Oleg Dulgaryan, a member of the community's Council of Elders, emphasized the fact that the dwellers already lacked grazing and plough lands. The situation will only worsen in case the tailing dump is built on lands of agricultural designation.
According to him, the new tailing dump is to be located next to Mets Airum and Chochkan rural communities and will occupy 40 hectares territory. Meanwhile, it is planned to transform the agricultural lands into industrial ones for the construction of the dump. Dulgaryan The unsatisfactory condition of the operating Nahatak tailing dump has also been spoken of.