Sun, Nov 08 2009

Bulgaria's Sea Administration Executive Agency is starting the realisation of two partnership projects, the Transport Ministry said on January 28 2009. The two projects, which are planned to continue for six months, are called Increasing Capacity for Preventing the Pollution of the Danube River with Oil and Other Harmful Substances, and Increasing Capacity for Preventing the Pollution of the Black Sea with Oil and Other Harmful Substances.
Chelopech Mining denied allegations of poluting the drinking water in the village of Chelopech and said the water reservoirs are safe. Allegations of cyanide poisoning had been the cause of a demonstration on January 20 by Cyanide Free Bulgaria.
The coalition Cyanide Free Bulgaria and political party Zelenite (Bulgarian Greens) said on July 11 that they would file a petition to the Greek ambassador to Bulgaria Danae-Magdalini Koumounakou and Turkish ambassador in Sofia Heydar Berk, to inform them about the hazards inherent in the use of cyanide technology for gold mining in Bulgaria for the population living on the riverbanks of Arda and Maritsa, flowing from Bulgaria to Turkey and Greece. The three projects that, according to the environmentalists, endanger the population are in Kroumovgrad, Kurdjali and Chelopech. The use of cyanides in gold extration held a high risk of pollution of the rivers, the environmental organisations said in a media statement.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.
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