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23 February 2017 Pig farms as top-secret facilities

Since autumn 2016, EPL team has been advising residents of Tlumach district of Ivano-Frankivsk region, who learned of the decision of Tlumach District Administration №109 “On approval of the detailed plan of the territory outside the settlements of Hrushkivska, Havrylyatska, Hotymyrska village councils for building farm facilities on the farming land” adopted in February 2016….

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23 February 2017 The authorities of the village where deforestation rate is the highest in Kyiv oblast protest against creation of a national park

V. Sereda, the village mayor of Plesetske village in Kyiv oblast, appealed to the head of the Kyiv Regional Council H. Starikov with the request to prevent the establishment of a new national park in Kyiv oblast. The creation of the national nature parks “Pryirpinnya and Chernechyi lis”1 was initiated by scholars and activists of…

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13 February 2017 The fight of opinions regarding the law on strategic environmental assessment

On 4 October 2016, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Strategic Environmental Assessment”. The adoption of the law was stipulated primarily by Ukraine’s international obligations within the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context. According to the…

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13 February 2017 International institutions unanimously urge Ukraine to adopt the law on environmental impact assessment vetoed by the President of Ukraine

On February 7, 2017, the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention (Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context) published a report of its thirty-seventh session, held on 12-14 December 2016 in Geneva. At this session, the Committee examined among other issues Ukraine’s progress in implementation of the decision on non-compliance of the state…

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6 February 2017 Lost protected objects and territories in Zaporizhzhia region

We continuing analyzing losses of natural reserve fund in the regions of Ukraine and next goes Zaporizhzhia region, which has the most developed agricultural sector. In the region, there are 336 objects of protected areas totally covering 152422.9624 hectares. The actual area of protected areas in the region is 124242.9624 ha, ie 4.57% of the…

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2 February 2017 Again about hexachlorobenzene …or how “cleaners” of the polygon of hazardous waste in Kalush demand the money for removing hexachlorobenzene that in fact was not fully removed

The issue of removal of hazardous hexachlorobenzene waste from Kalush that in 2011-2013 was performed by “SI Group Consort Ltd” (Israel) has been repeatedly raised both in Ukraine and abroad. This is the company that won the tenders for procurement of state services of hexachlorobenzene waste removal performed in 2011-2012 by the Ministry of Environment…

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25 January 2017 Lviv city council ignores court hearings on Hrybovychi landfill

EPL appealed to the Halytskyi District Court of Lviv with a suit challenging actions of Lviv city council related to the operation of Hrybovychi landfill. However, representatives of Lviv City Council failed to attend two consecutive court hearings, in this way procrastinating consideration of the case. Back in October 2016, EPL filed a lawsuit with…

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25 January 2017 And once again about waste …

We got to know that on January 19, 2017, Lviv City Council (LCC) held an extraordinary scandalous session and adopted the resolution “On the critical situation in the administrative territory of Lviv City Council due to the inability to remove solid waste”. Even despite the truly critical situation with the removal of solid domestic waste…

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25 January 2017 The last chance for Ukraine to save face in the context of the Aarhus Convention

On January 23, 2017, Christian Friis Bach – Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe addressed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mr. Klimkin with a letter on the findings of the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention on Ukraine’s implementation of decisions V/9m of the Meeting of the Parties regarding…

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23 January 2017 Why is the Ministry of Environment responsible for the massiveness of forest logging and how to prevent it?

According to the Forest Code of Ukraine, allowable forest cutting norm is “scientifically based annual norm of logging approved for every owner, permanent forest user by groups of species, based on the principles of continuity and non-exhaustion of forest resources use.” These forest cutting norms are defined by appraisers (PA “Ukrderzhlisproekt) and are approved by…

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