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Air in the capital of NMacedonia more polluted in February and March than same period last year
The measures taken by state and local authorities to lower the air pollution in Skopje are obviously not enough. The data provided by the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning - MEPP's air pollution monitoring stations in the capital of North Macedonia indicate that during this winter in February and March the air was more polluted compared to the...
Government of North Macedonia approves cleanup of the Small lindane depot at OHIS
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 finally start.
Even though the...
Import of used vehicles below EURO 5 standard into North Macedonia continues
The import of used vehicles below the EURO 5 standard for emission of gases will continue in North Macedonia in the next several months. The Ministry of Economy has no decisive date when the rule books containing new technical requirements and specifications for the import of vehicles from abroad will be changed nor has it determined a deadline when...
New roads were being built in Macedonia last year, the expectations for this year are they will be put into use
During this year, North Macedonia expects an increased development of its road infrastructure, including putting into use of several new roads that were being built in the past few years. Despite the usual delays during the implementation of the projects due to the common problems that were bolstered last year with the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, the improvement of...
Unless all four depots are cleaned, the lindane in OHIS will forever pose a threat to Skopje
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 thousands of tons, lay...
Shar Mountain put under temporary protection, environmentalists in North Macedonia happy
Naser Nuredini, the Minister of Environment of North Macedonia, has placed Shar Mountain under temporary protection until it is declared a national park. As the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning informs, Nuredini has passed a decree in accordance with the Law on Nature Protection for temporary protection of the part of the Shar Mountain which is under a...
New wastewater treatment plants will save rivers in North Macedonia from more than half of the produced sewage
On the occasion of the World Water Day, the 22nd of March, Meta.mk reminds that 2021 is the year when the tender procedures should be completed and the building of the long time promised wastewater treatment plants in Skopje, Bitola, Tetovo will start. With their construction, over 50% of the urban wastewater created in Macedonia will no longer be...
Construction of Kichevo-Ohrid motorway will breach deadline for the second time, the analyses to follow!
The Public Enterprise for State Roads is preparing detailed analyses for the extension of the deadline for the building of the Kichevo-Ohrid motorway. It is highly probable that the deadline will be breached for the second time since the contractor, the Chinese company Sinohidro, took the job to supposedly finish the construction of the motorway in the length of...
The ruling party and the opposition in North Macedonia disagree on the proposed BRT for Skopje
After four months in "the parliamentary labyrinths", Government's draft law for taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for construction of two Bus Rapid Transit lines in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, yesterday finally passed through the Financing and Budget Committee's filters.
The Government finalized the draft-law for rapid bus transit (RBT) in mid-November...
COVID-19 crisis put public transportation in North Macedonia on oxygen support
In 2020, there were 40,523,000 passengers in the urban and intercity public transportation in North Macedonia, show the data provided by the State Statistical Office. It's the historically lowest number of transferred passengers with public transportation throughout the municipalities nationwide and the COVID pandemic is behind this drop in numbers.
Compared to 2019, the number of passengers using the urban...
Timber thieves in North Macedonia last year had stolen 26 000 cubic meters of timber, Forest Police and inspectors lack personnel
The Macedonian forests are at constant risk not from the forest fires and illegal logging and misuse of the wood as firewood, but also from the insufficient number of forest rangers, inspectors and forest police that are supposed to take care of their safety. According to the data provided by the public enterprise "Makedonski shumi" (Macedonian Forests) revealed in...
Dr. Stojanov: The pandemic will last much longer, all restrictions will be in vain if we do not obey the measures
In the previous year, we learned nothing if we take into account the the number of COVID-related cases and the restrictive measures that will be imposed once again.... The situation is showing that all measures will be in vain, as we don't understand that we should not join the crowds, not frequent the shopping malls, that we should avoid...
Electricity subsidies necessary not only for social welfare beneficiaries, but for low income people, as well
The list of electricity subsidies beneficiaries in North Macedonia should be expanded to also include families with low incomes, families with only one family member employed, but also the unemployed and the workers made redundant. At the moment, this right for monthly support in the amount of MKD1 000 is only given to around 30 000 people that are...
Tender procedure for construction of regional landfill in Mechkuevci in North Macedonia started
The Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of North Macedonia explained for Meta.mk that the tender procedure for the selection of a company that will be building the regional landfill and the six waste transfer stations in the Eastern and the Northeastern Planning region in North Macedonia has already started. This regional landfill, where 65% of the whole waste...
US donates 1.269 M4 assault rifles to ARM – acquisitions of handguns, sniper rifles, howitzers to follow!
The Army of the Republic of North Macedonia - ARM, received 1,269 M4 assault rifles from the US as a donation worth US$1.2 million, aimed to assist the equipping of the Light Infantry Battalion Battle Group, the primary NATO-declared unit. These new items will be followed by procurement of equipment and weaponry consisting of handguns, 7.62 mm sniper rifles,...
The cleaning and closure of 77 landfills and dumps in North Macedonia starts this month
The selection of the two companies that will be monitoring the process is over and during this month the cleaning of landfills and dumps in the Eastern and the Northeastern Planning Regions will start , the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of North Macedonia announced for Meta.mk.
In the 18 municipalities in this part of the country, 70 illegal...
Everyone is talking about air pollution, but hardly anyone uses electric vehicles
Car usage in North Macedonia is on constant rise, while people's interest in using public transportation in urban settings is in huge decline, causing decline of numbers of passengers in the intercity trains and buses. The rate of the motorization in 2019 has reached 205.2 passenger vehicles to 1.000 citizens, even though in the previous decade, over 80% ...
Instead of building new railroad track with “slavery” loan from China, North Macedonia must reconstruct the current railroads
Bigger investments in the reconstruction of the railroad tracks in North Macedonia, meeting the deadlines for the reconstruction projects and raising the maximum travel speed to 120 km/h on the railroad track between Tabanovce and Gevgelija. If these goals are not reached by the government of North Macedonia, the railroad of the Corridor 10 cannot be competitive to the...
The аrmies of North Macedonia and USA prepare the Krivolak Military Range for the “Decisive Strike 21” spring drill
An ambitious plan for the development of the Krivolak Military Range in North Macedonia, in cooperation with the USA was announced yesterday by the Macedonian Defense Minister Radmila Shekerinska - Jankovska, who visited the military training range in the center of the country, together with the US Ambassador Kate Byrnes.
Macedonian and US engineering units will start with intense preparations...
Auditors say steps taken in past three years didn’t reduce air pollution in North Macedonia
Although a positive step, the activities toward reducing the air pollution in North Macedonia which were undertaken in the past three years did not reach the set goals and did not provide the desired effect, declares the State Audit Office - SAO of North Macedonia in its final audit report on the monitoring of the recommendations given by the...
