DEFENDERS OF TRCHKAN WATERFALL URGE BUSINESSMEN TO LAUNCH ECONOMIC PROGRAMS IN THE MOST VULNERABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES
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Thursday, January 19, 13:11
The defenders of the Trchkan waterfall have urged businessmen to
launch economic programs in the most vulnerable rural communities,
including in the deposits near the waterfall.
This, in their opinion, will allow creating additional jobs in farming,
light industry and some other fields.
“The owners of the deposits (among them former and acting government
officials, MPs and their relatives) say that they are creating new jobs
but in reality are using people as cheap workforce,” say the greens.
A number of environmentalists united into a Let’s Save Trchkan
group following reports about plans to build a water power plant
near the waterfall. After a series of large-scale campaigns Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan promised to turn the area into a specially
protected zone.
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