ARMENIA CONTINUES PROSPECTING FOR URANIUM
news.az
Dec 9 2011
Azerbaijan
The Armenian government has said that is continuing prospecting for
uranium in response to concern from environmentalists.
“Geological work carried out by the Armenian-Russian mining company
meets the classic standards for geological prospecting,” the government
said in a statement, News.am reported.
The statement was posted on the Facebook page of the prime minister’s
assistant. This was a response to a statement from the president
of the Sustainable Development NGO, Armen Parsadyan, on PM Tigran
Sargsyan’s Facebook page demanding an end to the search for uranium.
Parsadyan said that a group had been created to coordinate the
anti-uranium movement.
The Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources said a year
ago that uranium had been found in the southern Syunik Province.
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