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David Arakhamia and his first deputy Andriy Motovilovets voted against.
The Verkhovna Rada lacked 41 members’ votes to adopt amendments to the law that would have banned the construction of wind power plants in the mountainous areas of the Carpathians and on protected natural territories. The chair of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, and his first deputy, Andriy Motovilovets, voted against adopting the amendments. Moreover, Motovilovets was the only one who voted against twice, reports the civic initiative Holka.
It is noted that the Rada voted on two amendments to protect the Carpathians, and at least one of them was supported by 185 members of parliament, 110 of whom were representatives of Servant of the People.
These figures were shown by the roll-call votes on 15 October for the amendments by Holos party MP Roman Lozynskyi (amendment No. 2077 to draft law No. 15460 and amendment No. 873 to draft law No. 16051-1). These amendments would have prohibited construction of wind power plants in the Carpathians and on protected natural territories, and instructed the government to develop a comprehensive draft law on mountain protection.
The amendments received 141 and 134 votes, short of the required 226, and did not pass. Representatives of all factions and groups supported protecting the Carpathians, except for Platform for Life and Peace and Restoration of Ukraine.
Veteran and biologist with the NGO Teren, Andriy Tupikov, the author of a petition demanding protection of the Carpathians, emphasizes that the government has been delaying preparation of a draft law for over half a year.
“During this time it would have been possible to develop a separate draft law and submit it to the Rada. But it still hasn’t been done. The vote on these two amendments showed: there is support in the chamber, and it will be feasible to gather the votes. At the start of the term Volodymyr Zelensky said, ‘We understand that for many of you the Carpathians are simply a big feeding trough, but this is our country, and we will not let you eat it.’ Now the government must fulfill those words. Because while it delays, roads are already being planned to be built to the pastures Hostra and Svidovets,” the biologist stressed.
The text of the petition by veteran and ecologist Andriy Tupikov, in which he demands that the president immediately submit to parliament a draft law that will protect the Carpathians, was published only on the fifth attempt. Within a week it gathered over 26 thousand signatures. After that Zelensky simply redirected it to then-Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and to NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov.
The turbines on the Runa pasture are being built at an altitude of 1 400 meters above sea level. Construction is being carried out by the company Friendly Wind Technologies, which, according to YouControl, belongs to Maksym Yefimov — a former member of parliament from the now-banned Party of Regions.
The State Ecological Inspectorate has no intention of inspecting the tree felling on the pasture where the wind power plant is being built. Previously, scientists found species of animals and plants in that area that are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.
Read more in the article “Wind turbines in the Carpathians: what’s really happening in the mountains?” by ecosystem conservation specialist Bohdan Kuchenko of the NGO Ecodia.
And about who and how allowed the start of wind turbine construction in the heart of the Carpathians despite the absence of an environmental impact assessment, read the article by Holka analyst Heorhii Mohylnyi “The DIAM corruption scheme. Whose side is the state on when Carpathian peaks are being developed with wind turbines?”."
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