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Turkey’s environmental impact report on nuclear power was forged

Signatures on nuclear power plant environmental impact report forged January 12, 2015, Monday/ 16:25:18/ TODAY’S ZAMAN / ANKARAThe signatures of engineers said to have prepared an environmental impact report (ÇED) for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, slated to be built in Mersin province, were found to have been forged, casting doubts on the overall integrity of the report.

A report in the BirGün daily on Monday maintained that the engineers responsible for preparing the Akkuyu plant resigned from their posts six months before the reports were due to be turned in, prompting suspicion that the assessments had been conducted unsupervised by professionals.

The Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers’ (TMMOB) requested a criminal investigation, and found that two of the signatures of the nuclear energy engineers had been forged. Furthermore, according to BirGün, the report had been revised by the contractor firm, Akkuyu NPP — a subsidiary of Russian energy firm Rosatom and the private company issuing the ÇED, without notifying the engineers.

According to the report, the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning approved the tampered ÇED, effectively giving the go-ahead for the construction of the power plan………After independent analyses by three experts, the signatures on the report were found to have been forged and the license of the private firm that issued the ÇED is expected to be revoked……….

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said then that that the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant was to continue even though the ÇED report prepared by Akkuyu NPP JSC, which won the government tender and is the investor of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, had been turned down by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning……… http://www.todayszaman.com/business_signatures-on-nuclear-power-plant-environmental-impact-report-forged_369563.html

January 16, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, secrets,lies and civil liberties