DOES AZERBAIJAN NEED THE RADAR STATION?
The radar station covers 210 hectares, plus 30 hectares of land which has turned into a scrap heap. The projected power of the station is 350 MW but it is impossible to use it to capacity because when using even 300 MW in 1984 one hectare of territory was completely burned. When installing high voltage lines, over 400 hectares of forest were destroyed. Apart from that, as a result of the station’s operation, thousands of priceless trees have been dying after drying up because of lack of moisture. The amount of water in the soil started going down catastrophically when 16 deep artesian wells were drilled. They are necessary to ensure a constant [water] supply to the cooling system of the equipment of the radar station which is operating at a high temperature. Just one hour of operations at the station requires 300-400 cubic meters of water. After that, this used water is dumped on the mountain slope where the radar station is situated without chemical and biological cleansing and goes i
