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30 December 2022
The tests undertaken by the Ministry of Environment of North Macedonia at Pelenica, located next to the Skopje suburb of Drachevo, showed high concentration of lindane (HCH) covered by waste glass. The hazardous waste from the former chemical industry complex OHIS was not placed in concrete pools, as is the case with the two landfills […]
22 December 2021
New quantities of lindane were found in one of the warehouses of the former chemical industry complex OHIS, at the outskirts of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, by an unannounced inspection by the State Environmental Inspectorate. Three tons of lindane packed in industrial paper sacks were found on wooden pallets in the warehouse now […]
9 December 2021
White dust in the soil was the reason for the delay on the cleanup of the small lindane landfill at OHIS, the former chemical industry complex in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The Greek company Polyeco has already started the preparations for setting the tent above the small landfill that was scheduled for cleanup. […]
13 July 2021
One year from now, the small landfill with lindane at the OHIS factory in Skopje should be cleaned up, said Macedonian minister of environment Naser Nuredini. Today, the minister announced the start of the activities for remediation of 7,000 tons of this dangerous chemical and contaminated soil that have stood for decades at the yard […]
15 April 2021
During its session on Tuesday, the Government of North Macedonia approved the plan for cleaning up the smaller depot with lindane in the OHIS plant’s yard. Five decades since thousands of tons of lindane (carcinogenic insecticide) were buried in the yard of this former chemical giant in the times of former Yugoslavia, its cleanup should […]
9 April 2021
Over 13 000 tons of dangerous lindane lay in the Small depot in the former chemical factory OHIS at the outskirts of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. But there are four times more (over 50 000 tons) in the Big depot and still unknown quantities of the toxic chemical, presumably in the ranges of […]
8 May 2020
By the end of May, the name of the company that will be cleaning the lindane from the smaller depot located in the yard of the former OHIS plant will be known, said Naser Nuredini, the Minister of Environment, for Meta.mk. He stressed that due to the situation with the Covid’19 epidemic, the process of […]
30 March 2020
The examination of the soil at Pelnica near Drachevo, a potential depot for the dangerous chemical lindane from OHIS, will not start this year. The Ministry of Environment said that they haven’t created a budget for analyses at the location, but they are working on providing funds through donors. Pelenica is the fourth depot of […]
11 November 2019
Apart from the lindane, the Ministry of Environment wasn’t involved in the process of cleansing of any other dangerous chemicals at the Ohis’ property since the former chemical giant is now privately owned. This was stated today at the press conference by the Minister of Environment Naser Nuredini after Friday’s incident when an unknown quantity […]
The international lindane tender didn’t fail, but its application deadline was extended until the 16th of December by UNOPS in order to provide more time for more companies to provide more interest to participate on the tender, informed today the Minister of Environment Naser Nuredini. We expect that we shall be presented with innovative ideas […]
8 November 2019
On request of the offerers, the international tender that was announced on the 15th of October for а selection of technology for the removal of the lindane waste and its isomers from the yard of the OHIS factory in Skopje, that should have ended on the 11th this month, has been extended until the 16th […]
16 October 2019
The international tender for the selection of technology for the removal of lindane and its isomers from the OHIS’ yard in Skopje was published yesterday and is expected to be open until the 11th of November, informs the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES). The tender has been published at UNIDO’s official webpage. The Ministry of Environment […]
16 August 2019
The start of the cleaning of the small landfill with lindane in the yard of the former OHIS factory in Skopje. An international tender still hasn’t been called for finding a company that will clean the first of several landfills that contain the dangerous herbicide lindane including the determining of a method that will eliminate […]
21 May 2019
The lindane landfill located in the Pelenica area near the Skopje settlement Dracevo has been fenced off. After confirmation from the Ministry of Environment, our crew visited the site and there we really came across a fence, but it was a plain wire fence, with a wire door and padlock, without any signs, warnings and […]
25 March 2019
The Ministry of Environment and Planning has announced a tender for acquiring a fence in order to fence off the illegal lindane dump in Pelenica. The tender was initially announced for the end of 2018, and then for the end of January this year or on the 11th of March and it was finally announced […]
3 January 2019
Where the former OHIS one-hectare plant used to stand, apart from thousands of tons of carcinogenic lindane, other poisonous chemicals also lie, and must be urgently addressed, informed several competent institutions for Meta. At the OHIS site, there is mercury, other pesticides, acids and PVC powder, Adnan Kahil told Meta, who until recently was a […]
26 December 2018
In the land plot of the former OHIS factory there is a third landfill, located near the large and the small landfill, and it is quite possible that it might contain lindane, says for Meta news agency Adnan Kahil, the minister without portfolio for foreign investments, who is a part of the Working group that […]
20 December 2018
the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MEPP) has sent a notification at the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MES) not to organize any excursions in the areas of Pelenica, Drachevo, the location for which Meta wrote that there is an unmarked landfill containing the cancerous lindane that originates from OHIS factory. “The Ministry of […]
18 December 2018
By the end of the year, the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning will close the area off with a fence in Drachevo where there are doubts that an illegal landfill is located containing 8,000 tons of lindane, which came from the OHIS plant, State Secretary from the Ministry, Ana Petrovska confirmed for “Meta”. She said […]
17 December 2018
In the vicinity of Drachevo, in the Pelenitsa area, there is an illegal landfill with several thousand tons of toxic waste which contains Lindane, the Ministry of Environment told “Meta”. The landfill is unmarked, uninhabited and there is no sign informing the public that there is a toxic carcinogen waste that affects both the environment […]
