Armenia: Small hydropower plants on Geghahovit river caused water quality deterioration threatening agriculture in the region, say local residents
摘要
日期: 2021年5月20日
地點: 亞美尼亞
企業
El-Kas LLC - Unknown項目
Gegharot SHPP - Unknown受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
抗議 , 土地權 , 水的獲取 , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Impacts on Livelihoods , Personal Health回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2021年5月20日
地點: 亞美尼亞
企業
Vakuflo LLC - Unknown項目
Aragats-1 SHPP - Unknown受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
抗議 , 土地權 , 水的獲取 , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Impacts on Livelihoods , Personal Health回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
"Because of Gegharot and Aragats-1 SHPPs, our lands are deserted, the water quality has changed," Residents of Aragatsotn region are demonstrating, 20 May 2021
[Summary translation provided by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
Residents of several villages of Aragatsotn region were protesting outside the government building today. The cultivated lands of the residents had been deserted for 11 years due to the operation of two small hydropower plants on Gegahovit River - Gegharot and Aragats-1. The villages...located in the Gegharot river valley, suffer from the operation of these hydropower plants...According to the residents, all the vegetation dried up and the crop got spoiled...For years the residents raised their voices. Representatives of Ministry of Nature Protection analyzed the water quality and found out the quality was bad, unfit for agriculture...
The Ministry made a decision that the operation of the HPPs should be suspended, but later the administrative court suspended the minister's decision.