EcoLur
“EcoRight” NGO responded to “Zangezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine” CJSC letter entitled “Clarification” in regard with the joint statement by “EcoRight” and “EcoLur” made on 12 July 2016.
The response particularly says, “Taking into consideration that the clarification made by the combine contains legal misunderstandings, besides qualifies assessment it also contains definitions so we consider it necessary to cover several principal matters.”
First of all, we haven’t made any statements, but we made an application to Kapan Municipality as a body in charge of holding the organizations and Nature Protection Ministry as a head of the department running state environmental policy.
These two terms – Statement and Application, have completely different legal content. The application is addressed to certain subjects, which in the virtue of their offices held and commitments, should proceed with the Application in the frames of the law.
The clarification by ZCMC Company contains allegations addressed to us saying that we discredit the image of the company by performing an order.
Before making such kind of allegation all the circumstances and substantiations should be outlined as to particularly which points in our Application addressed to Kapan Mayor and Nature Protection Minister served as basis to think that we “have deviated from the essence of the public hearings and which points contain discrediting statements addressed to your company etc. Who are these customers and what kind of interest exactly do our organizations have etc.”
Under the conditions of non-availability of any facts we propose not to get beyond any legal-defining frames.
I would also like to remind that during the hearings Kapan Mayor outlined in reply to my question that it was impossible to display the project on the website because of technical reasons. It’s recorded in the minutes of the hearings. Nevertheless, the Clarification says that the project was available and the links are displayed on the websites of Kapan and Qajaran.
The company itself should have insisted on postponing the public hearings because of certain technical reasons, unless the project was publicized. Thus, it was impossible to discuss the real volumes of Artsvanik tailing dump where annually 22 million tons of dumps are located etc. I do insist that the carried out hearings can’t be considered as held in the frames of the law and must be annulled,” the letter says.
July 18, 2016 at 16:10