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presentation on Ostrovets NPP provided from Belarusian anti-nuclear organizer:

Belarus antinuclear campaign

 * NPP construction in Belarus
 * started in Ostrovetsky district of Grodno region 2009
 * The works on NPP infrastructure construction (roads, communications ets.) started summer 2009 before:
 * EIA procedures by Aarhus and Espoo were even started,
 * the project was developed and license issued.
 * Facilities for NPP construction (mini-plant for concrete production) were finished by summer 2011 before the project were done and license issued.
 * 1st reactor building construction was started 31 May 2012 - 6 month before the project description was finished and more than 1 year before the license was issued.
 * Belarus antinuclear campaign, Ecohome
 * Belarus antinuclear campaign is not an organization. It is a public campaign.
 * Our main aim is to stop NPP construction in Belarus, cancel all the decisions, related to NPP construction in Belarus.
 * We are for the nuclear free development!
 * The decisions in Belarus antinuclear campaign are taken by consensus of main participants. Each participant can suggest an action or activity and discuss with the others.
 * Ecohome coordinates the BANC activities.
 * NGO Ecohome initiated Belarus antinuclear campaign (BANC), inviting civil society representatives on the meeting in Kiev in autumn 2008. The same year Belarus president Lukashenko took the so-called "final political decision" to construct in Belarus Nuclear Power Plant.
 * By the end of 2009 in BANC participated:
 * Public Association Ecohome
 * Movement Scientists for Nuclear free Belarus
 * Belarusian Green Party
 * Public campaign "Ostrovets NPP – is the crime!"
 * By the 26th 2012 political parties and movements started interact with BANC in Chernobyl Shliah organizing.
 * 2009 organized EIA Critic of official EIA and its discussion
 * 2010 organized Public independent expertise of official EIA and promoted it in other countries during EIA consultations and hearings
 * December 2011 organized an International conference on the atom industry problems in Vilnius
 * 2009-2014 street actions, demonstrations, rallies were hold in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Germany and other countries
 * September 2009 Andrey Ozharovsky was arrested for 7 days in Ostrovets.
 * August 2012 Andrey Ozharovsky (10), Tatyana Novikova (5), Irina Sukhy (fined) and Mihail Matskevich (5) were arrested
 * Public expertize and EIA critic presentation in Vilnius (2010), Vienna (2010)
 * actions:
 * Vilnius, 26 April 2010
 * Moscow, autumn 2012
 * Shernobyl Sliah 2012
 * Chernobyl Shliah 2013
 * NPP construction in Belarus
 * 29 June 2011 the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee took decision, that Belarus violated Convention during NPP construction.
 * 15 March 2013 the Espoo Convention Compliance Committee took decision, that Belarus violated Convention during NPP construction.
 * 28 June - 2 July 2014 the Aarhus decision will adopt by the MOP (meeting of parties).
 * 2-5 June 2014 the Espoo decision will adopt by the MOP.
 * How to help?
 * We need strong position of the EU and UNECE bodies on the Belarus NPP question.
 * Could help: letters to government, public statements, media publications, and street actions in EU countries before the MOPs conventions meetings.
 * more information: http://www.atomby.net

You can download the presentation held on May 9, 2014 in pdf format.