Time for Armenia to Choose: Mining for Development or Systematic Plunder?

15:48, March 30, 2015

It is indisputable that different aspects of the mountaintop mining industry, especially the production and processing of useful metal mining, cause irrevocable damage to nature and human health, thus differing essentially from other types of human economic activity.

However, the companies engaged in these activities have been insisting for a long time that so called “sustainable” mining operations cause almost no damage to the environment.

Now that such a statement is hard to substantiate they have begun using the term “responsible” mining and the main idea of this is to disguise the real hazards and neutralize public criticism under the veil of economic growth, corporate profit and social programs. And all this is even more dangerous for countries like Armenia that have a small territory, population living under extremelydifficult social conditions and corrupt government.  Read more... (1660 words)

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