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1361.The first victory of environmental communities in shale gas conflict: the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy held shale gas hearings attended by NGOs (2013-05-26)
... On 22 May, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Liquidation of Consequences of Chornobyl Disaster held hearings entitled “Environmental problems of shale gas extraction in Ukraine” initiated and organized by the head of the Committee Iryna Sekh. The Committee hearings were attended by deputies, staff of the Verkhovna Rada... ...
1362.American studies prove the cases of environment pollution related to shale gas extraction (2013-05-25)
... “Ukrainian media disseminate legends about successful technologies of shale gas extraction in the territory of the USA and wide support of American people for these technologies. However, according to official studies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the USA, up to 20% – 40% of the chemicals remain underground, they are biologically undegradable and contaminate... ...
1363.EPL’s participation at EIA Conference in Poland (2013-05-20)
... On May 23-24, the University of Wroclaw hosted the annual conference of the Environmental Law Network International – EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive – challenges and perspectives in the light of the past experiences and the recent proposal for amendment. Legal experts from EPL and many other organizations, including governmental bodies, throughout Europe and outside... ...
1364.ELAW Fellow Nataliya Horodetska arrived from Lviv on Sunday. (2013-04-03)
... Dear friends, ELAW Fellow Nataliya Horodetska arrived from Lviv on Sunday. This is orientation week for her at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute. Nataliya will be with us for 10 weeks, to collaborate on her work as Legal Advisor at Environment People Law and improve her English. ...
1365.Top five court decisions important for human rights protection taken in 2012 (2013-03-04)
... The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from NGOs within a project “Public enforcement of independence and fairness of courts” developed a list of five top court decisions in Ukraine important for human rights protection. The selection was made on the basis of five criteria: importance of protected rights, potential or actual... ...
1366.Top five court decisions for human rights protection (2013-03-03)
... The level of trust to judicial system in Ukraine is very low, this being caused by numerous biased decisions and selective justice. However, there is a ray of hope in this situation as there are some court decisions ensuring real protection for human rights. The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from... ...
1367.Over a thousand EIA decisions posted by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine on its web-site following the court decision (2013-02-22)
... Earlier EPL informed that in November 2012 the appellate court upheld a lower court decision from October 2011 ordering the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine to post full texts of all EIA decision taken over three years. In 2011 the administrative court met Environmental-People-Law’s (EPL) claim and declared that failure of the... ...
1368.We demand to impose moratorium on shale gas development in Ukraine! (2013-02-01)
... Dear deputies, dear Lviv region community! We ask you to pay attention to the menacing environmental catastrophe that is already on our threshold. By this we mean the permit to develop shale gas in the territory of Ukraine. Shale gas is natural gas located mostly in soft shale rock with wide branching of fissures. Gas... ...
1369.The final decision in the legal debate regarding access to environmental information possessed by a private party (2013-01-22)
... On January 22, 2013 Lviv Appellate Economic Court denied an appeal of a private company and upheld the decision of the lower court of August 31, 2012 granting Environment-People-Law access to company’s documents containing environmental information. For almost two years EPL fought for court interpretation and application of a new progressive provision of the Law... ...
1370.Environment-People-Law joins the international academic environmental law community of IUCN (2013-01-17)
... In January 2013, international public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law became a member of the Academy of Environmental Law of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization is IUCN member and in 2003 it was recognized the IUCN legal excellency center. Members of the Academy are leading universities and research law institutions worldwide.... ...
