$100 M SKI CENTER PROJECT DELAYED

Business | August 6, 2001, Monday // 00:00

`An improved environmental impact assessment on the Sutka project is to be submitted to the Ministry of Environment анд Ватерс in September`, the company`s manager Kostadin Mugev announced after a general shareholders meeting. The project concerns building ski runways and rope cars and elevators under the second highest peak in the Rhodopes. The Ministry revoked the project in July due to some discrepancies, such as the size of the territory, which is specified once as 2450 hectares, and then as 2600 hectares, lack of an environment impact assessment, including the impact on the habitat of rare animals and absence of alternatives for the sports complex development. Neither sewerage system, nor waste management techniques were specified. Another reason making the project unacceptable is the lack of climate characterization of the area. The Sutka peak is 2,186 meters high. The ski complex is seen as a link in a chain of winter resorts, starting from Pamporovo, Belmeken, Bansko and Borovets. There are some 70 mineral springs near the peak. The durability of the snow cover is another advantage.
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