Hydro-electric station to be built on "Kapuyt Berd"?
Although Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan has responded to the protest by members of S.O.S. Argitch initiating group and the residents of 6 communities of Martuni, that doesn't instill any hope in them.
They demand the destruction of the dam built on Gayladzor brook before starting investigation.
Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan has assigned to end construction near Argitch River and has created a working group which will conduct studies of 5-6 communities where the protest began within 14 days.
"All construction on Gayladzor River are illegal because all activities had to undergo an expert examination," Deputy Head of the Department of Biodiversity and Land Control at the Ministry of Nature Protection Yuri Ishkhanyan told "A1+".
Ishkhanyan assured that the hydro-electric station will not be built on Argitch River, but on "Kapuyt Berd" brook.
Let us add that according to the members of S.O.S. Argitch initiating group, the construction of the hydro-electric station will deprive 6 communities of water for irrigation and will damage the fish of Lake Sevan because Argitch is a sustainable place for the fish of the basin of Sevan to lay their eggs.
