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    DENO GOLD MINING COMPANY PROPOSES FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT

    ArmInfo
    2010-02-01 15:14:00

    ArmInfo. Deno Gold Mining Company proposed to reach a friendly
    settlement on providing compensations to 28 owners of Shahumyan Region
    of Kapan Town who have brought an action on threat to life and health,
    EcoLur Public Organization told ArmInfo.

    According to Arthur Ghazaryan, Legal Consultant of "For Ensuring
    Ecological Safety and Developing Democracy" and plaintiffs' barrister,
    this proposal was made on 27 January during the sitting of the
    Administrative Court of General Jurisdiction in Syunik Marz. Arthur
    Ghazaryan believes that the essence of the lawsuit requires the
    friendly settlement to specify certain time period in the duration
    of which 28 owners of Shahumyan Region living in the most dangerous
    zone will be able to receive compensations and to resettle in a safe
    destination. "In our opinion, this process must start not later than
    early in February, as temperature increase, snow melting, and rains
    may lead to an accident," A. Ghazaryan said.

    To recall, Environmental-Social Profile for Deno GRld Mining Company's
    Operation in Armenia" published article was presented in Yerevan on
    Jan 18. Local ecologists called the situation in the Syunik community
    hard. "We qualify it as disastrous as there are tails so far, which
    are left open by the company. The river Norashenik flows near the
    tails, and its banks are fortified with those tails", they said. The
    contamination of the territory with heavy metals is of big danger as
    the given community supplies greenery and dairy to the whole town of
    Kapan. Shahumyan gold-polymetallic deposit being developed by DGM
    was qualified as a highly dangerous zone: "the residents' houses
    break down of explosions. The developers have not practically left
    the upper layer above the drifts despite to the exploitation rules,
    and the land is caving in and making craters", ecologists said.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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