Environmental Activists Visit Teghut

Posted on January 16, 2012 by | 2 Comments

On January 15th more than a hundred environmental activists, artists and journalists visited Teghut forest, where a major mining project is underway.

This entry was posted in Armenia, Environment. Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Environmental Activists Visit Teghut

  1. Hayk | January 17, 2012 at 5:18 pm | Reply

    the locals who are happy for their monthly 150$ will loose their teeth in a few years because of mercury contamination, they and their children will develop all forms of cancer, will they be able to buy medication with that money? eeee, hayer…

    • Independent Armenia | January 21, 2012 at 1:00 am | Reply

      That firewood will keep a few families warm.

      I keep hearing about this teghut. What is it, some forest near Vanadzor?

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s