Armenia: Lake Sevan trapped between interests of public officials and hydropower company
Resumo
Data informada: 11 Set 2017
Localização: Arménia
Empresas
Hrazdan Energy Company (RazTES) - UnknownProjetos
Sevan-Hrazdan Hydrocascade - UnknownAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Comunidade: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida - Setor desconhecido , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida - Setor desconhecido , Gender not reported )Temas
Cumplicidade , Acesso à Água , Water pollution , Insufficient/inadequate consultation , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Impacts on LivelihoodsResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
From additional water intake to Amulsar: inaccessible villas and sunken facilities of officials on the shores of Lake Sevan, 11 September 2017
[Summary translation provided by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
...Two months ago National Assembly of Armenia passed a bill on making amendments to the RA Law "On Approval of Annual and Comprehensive Programs for Restoration, Preservation, Reproduction and Use of Lake Sevan Ecosystem". As a result annual discharge from the lake was changed from 170mln to 270 mln cubic meters...
Environmentalists and activists boycotted these changes highlighting the beneficiaries of such changes, which are public officials, whose properties are on the shores, as well as the Sevan-Hrazdan hydropower cascade, which will benefit from increased electricity production thus additional incomes.
And yet the communities nearby were not consulted regarding these changes. No public hearing was organized. The residents are overall dissatisfied with the ecological situation in Sevan with regards to quality and quantity of water in the lake, as well as irrigation problems they face as a result of water mismanagement.