Environment News Service (ENS)
Environment News Service (ENS): "Macedonia Constructs Nuclear Waste Dump in Secret
By Natasa Dokovska
SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 25, 2005 (ENS) - The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning is constructing a nuclear waste dump in the new community of Petrovec, near Skopje. Unannounced, the ministry is building the facility only three kilometers (two miles) from the Skopje airport, on the site of the Cojlija military airport.
The residents of this village and of 14 other local communities have made the existence of the dump public, and they say it is almost finished. These citizens and activists in environmental nongovernmental organizations say that the dump will be filled with radioactive waste imported from other countries.
While protesting the construction of the nuclear waste dump, the activists say it is not first such waste disposal facility in Macedonia. In the period of conflict in the late 1990s, they say, this kind of dump was constructed in several places where NATO soldiers were stationed.
British Chinook helicopters complete a refuelling run at Petrovec and move back to Kosovo with supplies. June 12, 1999 (Photo courtesy NATO KFOR)
The citizens who live near the dump are reacting against the facility and are joining environmental activists to organize a big demonstration in the front of the government buildings in Skopje.
The country's largest environmental nongovernmental organization, the Movement of Environmentalists of Macedonia (DEM), is strongly opposed to construction of the dump. The group accused the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning of failing to provide timely information about the project to the general public.
DEM is worried about the lack of transparency on the part of the ministry, as well as about the fact that no environmental impact st"
By Natasa Dokovska
SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 25, 2005 (ENS) - The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning is constructing a nuclear waste dump in the new community of Petrovec, near Skopje. Unannounced, the ministry is building the facility only three kilometers (two miles) from the Skopje airport, on the site of the Cojlija military airport.
The residents of this village and of 14 other local communities have made the existence of the dump public, and they say it is almost finished. These citizens and activists in environmental nongovernmental organizations say that the dump will be filled with radioactive waste imported from other countries.
While protesting the construction of the nuclear waste dump, the activists say it is not first such waste disposal facility in Macedonia. In the period of conflict in the late 1990s, they say, this kind of dump was constructed in several places where NATO soldiers were stationed.
British Chinook helicopters complete a refuelling run at Petrovec and move back to Kosovo with supplies. June 12, 1999 (Photo courtesy NATO KFOR)
The citizens who live near the dump are reacting against the facility and are joining environmental activists to organize a big demonstration in the front of the government buildings in Skopje.
The country's largest environmental nongovernmental organization, the Movement of Environmentalists of Macedonia (DEM), is strongly opposed to construction of the dump. The group accused the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning of failing to provide timely information about the project to the general public.
DEM is worried about the lack of transparency on the part of the ministry, as well as about the fact that no environmental impact st"
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