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951.Waste Processing Plant in the village Mezyrichya (2015-05-14)
... Case: Waste Processing Plant in the village Mezyrichya Residents of Mezyrichya versus Chervonograd city council Region: Ukraine, Lviv oblast Essence of case: Protection of the right to safe and healthy environment, right to participation in environmental decision-making Parties: Residents of Mezyrichya – plaintiffsChervonograd city council – defendant Essence of problem: Suspension of the construction of... ...
952.Waste Processing Plant in the village Mezyrichya (2015-05-14)
... Case: Waste Processing Plant in the village Mezyrichya Residents of Mezyrichya versus Chervonograd city council Region: Ukraine, Lviv oblast Essence of case: Protection of the right to safe and healthy environment, right to participation in environmental decision-making Parties: Residents of Mezyrichya – plaintiffs Chervonograd city council – defendant Essence of problem: Suspension of the construction... ...
953.Climate change litigation – violation of the legislation on the right to information and public participation in climate change issues by the Ministry of environmental protection in Ukraine (2015-05-14)
... Case: Climate change litigation- failure of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine to fulfil its climate change obligations. Region: Ukraine Fact of the matter: to declare unlawful inaction and to oblige the Ministry of Environmental Protection to take actions on fulfilment of undertaken obligations pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... ...
954.Challenging the decision of the State Agency of Geology and Mineral Resources of Ukraine about classification as insider information of the Agreement with Shell company (2015-05-14)
... Region: Ukraine Essence of the case: restoration of the right to information about conditions of the Product sharing agreement with Shell. Parties: plaintiff – International charitable organization Environment-People-Law, defendant – the State Agency of Geology and Mineral Resources of Ukraine. Essence of the case: On 20 March 2013, the State Agency of Geology and Mineral... ...
955.Education (2015-05-14)
... The objectives of the educational activities of our organization a to increase the level of environmental and legal culture and education of the citizens of Ukraine, to raise the level of environmental law consciousness and skills of lawyers, representatives of the public organizations, officials of the governmental authorities; to raise a new generation of environmental... ...
956.Best view yet of Ceres’ spots (2015-05-12)
... The fascinating bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres have come into sharper view. What were initially thought to be just a couple of brilliant, closely spaced features at one location now turn out to be a clutch of many smaller dots. The latest pictures were acquired by the US space agency’s... ...
957.Shell gets ‘conditional’ US Arctic drilling approval (2015-05-12)
... Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has won approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic. The approval depends on Shell getting a nod from other US regulators, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said. Shell stopped Arctic exploration more than two years ago after problems including an oil rig... ...
958.Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests (2015-05-12)
... Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests. A scheme backed by the government will include alternative job training, replanting projects and microloans. Mangroves are considered to be one of the world’s most at-risk habitats, with more than half being lost or destroyed in the... ...
959.EPL’s communication to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee with regard to product sharing agreements was found admissible (2015-05-09)
... In late March, we reported that at its forty-eighth meeting (Geneva, 24-27 March 2015), the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee considered the preliminary admissibility of communication PRE/ACCC/C/2014/118 concerning Ukraine submitted by NGO “Environment-People-Law” on 18 November 2014. The communication alleges that in 2013 during preparation and conclusion of the product sharing agreements regarding Yuzivska and Oleska... ...
960.The Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention: how Maydan saved Ukraine and about the draft law on environmental impact assessment (2015-05-09)
... The 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) is held in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 30 June till 2 July 2014. In the meeting hall there are over 450 official delegates and representatives of the public from... ...
