News on the topic: ecology
08.01.2009 Authoriteis pressurize activists of anti-nuclear campaign
Representatives of the local authorities started paying visits to homes of the organizers of the campaign against construction of the nuclear power station in order to ‘find more about their civil position’.
08.01.2009 Authorities prohibit anti-nuclear rally again
Smarhon authorities again banned a picket against construction of a nuclear power station in Astravets district. They explained it by saying that the president still had not signed the appropriate order.
03.12.2008 Signatures against construction of nuclear power plant are collected in Astravets district
Ivan Kruk and Mikola Ulasevich, members of the United Civil Party from Astravets, have started collecting signatures against construction of a nuclear power plant on the territory of Astravets district.
02.12.2008 Astravets: police detain civil activists on the way to nuclear power station building site
The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka, a journalist Vadzim Kaznacheyeu and a leader of the youth wing of the UCP, ‘Young Democrats’, Alexander Serhiyenka, have been detained in Astravets.
02.12.2008 Chavusy: activists collect signatures against construction of nuclear power plant
Activists of Horki-based initiative ‘Anti-nuclear group’ resumed collection of signatures against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
17.10.2008 Activists detained for green protest
According to Radio Liberty, Hrodna police detained three persons, including activists of the For Freedom movement Edvard Dmukhouski and Nadzeia Krapivina and teacher Ihar Lapekha, that organized an action of protest against a number of trees being cut down by the town communal services.
15.09.2008 Pukhavichy: court supports Russian company
On 15 September judge of Pukhavichy district court Liliya Rukhlevich rejected the suit of the dwellers of settlement of Druzhny against Pukhavichy district executive committee. By this verdict the citizens are prohibited to familiarize with documents of Pukhavichy district executive committee
13.06.2008 More than 2.5 thousand signatures against construction of nuclear power station in Belarus
Representatives of the antinuclear public initiative in Horki distract of Mahiliou oblast have collected more than 2.5 thousand signatures against the construction of a nuclear power station in Belarus. BelaPAN was informed about it by the press-secretary of the initiative Eduard Brokarau.
06.06.2008 Court fines teacher for protesting against construction of chemical plant
5 June Pukhavichy district court tried the administrative cases against the Tatsiana Dylkova and Nasta Papova, former teachers from the settlement of Druzhny who had taken part in the unauthorized meeting of the local citizens in protest against the construction of a chemical plant in the location by the Russian company Avgust-Bel.
05.06.2008 ‘Greens’ protest against cutting trees in Belarus’ settlements
Today, on the universal day of the environment, they have addressed the prime-minister Siarhei Sidorski with an open letter. The greens draw the minister’s attention to the facts of cut-downs of trees in the capital and other cities of Belarus and demand the protection of green plantations during construction and other works which influence the environment.
23.05.2008 Siarhei Abrazouski fined again
22 May the judge of Pukhavichy district court Sviatlana Akulich ruled to fine the civil activist Siarhei Abrazouski 1.4 million rubles for alleged organization of an unauthorized rally against the construction of a chemical plant near Minsk heating station #5.
15.05.2008 Authorities demand actions of protest against chemical plant be stopped
A group of state officials headed by the energy minister Alexander Aziartsou has met with the working collective of heat station #5 in the settlement of Druzhny (Pukhavichy district). Earlier the officials demanded that the people stopped the actions of protest against the construction of a chemical plant, started by the Russian company Avgust-Bel. The activists stay they will sue on this issue.
09.02.2008 Protest against Construction of Chemical Plant
Dwellers of village Druzhny (Pukhavichy district, Minsk oblast) collected more than a thousand votes against construction a crop protecting agents factory and sent them to the President’s Administration.
15.01.2008 Security Council Approves Construction of Nuclear Power Plant
The Security Council of Belarus took a final decision on construction a nuclear power plant in the country.
22.08.2007 Belarus to Build Atomic Power Plant
Minister for economy of Belarus Mikalai Zaichanka is sure that the country can’t do without the atomic power engineering. ‘Due to the present day state of relationship with Russia and gas prices the power engineering has become very costly’, declared the minister for economy in Minsk specifying that the majority of heat and electric power plants are gas powered. ‘We are loosing competitiveness on the tariffs and under such conditions we can’t do without an APP’, he said.
