KARINE DANIELYAN: OIL AND GAS PROSPECTING NEAR SEVAN WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR THE LAKE
by Karina Manukyan
Monday, March 2, 16:23
Oil and gas prospecting near Sevan will be devastating for the lake,
Head of the Association for Sustainable Development Karine Danielyan
told ArmInfo.
Earlier, EcoLur Ngo reported tha the Nature Protection Ministry
issued a positive opinion to “Blackstars Energy Armenia” LLC for
prospecting oil and gas in the areas of Hayravanq, Tsaghkashen and
Noradus villages dealing with fishing in the basin of Lake Sevan. The
permission is granted for a period of 2015-2016. The activities will
cost $11 million.
Meanwhile, Armenian environmentalists already alarm of the possible
impacts of the prospecting. “First, it runs contrary to the Law
on Lake Sevan. Second, we can already see the negative impacts of
oil prospecting in the Caspian Sea. We are sure that such activity
will be disastrous for Lake Sevan,” Danielyan said. She is sure that
environmentalists will not allow oil and gas prospecting to be launched
in the basin of the Lake.
From: Baghdasarian