Kazakhstan: Big Almaty Ring Road project results in resettlement, mass logging & threatens cultural heritage, claims local media
الملخص
Date Reported: 15 مايو 2019
الموقع: كازاخستان
الشركات
Bakad Investment and Operations LLP - Client , Alsim Alarko Sanayi Tesisleri ve Ticaret A.S. - Client , Makyol Insaat Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.S. - Client , SK Engineering and Construction - Client , Korea Expressway Corporation - Client , Dutch pension fund PGGM - Sponsor , Eurasian Development Bank - Sponsor , Islamic Development Bank - Sponsor , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Sponsor , Bank of China - Sponsorالمشاريع
Astana Bypass Road Reconstruction Project (BAKAD) - Siteالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Public: ( Number unknown - كازاخستان , بناء الطرق , Gender not reported )القضايا
الحقوق في الأراضي , القضايا الثقافية , Displacement , Social Securityالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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نوع المصدر: News outlet
"20,000 trees to be cut down near Almaty due to construction of BAKAD", 15 May 2019
...According to preliminary estimates, the construction of the BAKAD will cost 187 billion tenge. For the arrangement of the Big Almaty Ring Road, 724 plots worth 8 billion have already been vacated. According to Almaty.tv, the demolition of houses has already begun. Only two land plots remain, with the owners of which the authorities still continue the legal battle...
...Also, due to the construction of the BAKAD, workers will have to cut down 20,000 trees. In return, the contractors are obliged to plant 60,000 along the ring road. There are also about three hundred ancient burial mounds on the site of the future route, which are planned to be excavated and studied by archaeologists in the near future...