Sources say the State Supreme Court (SSC) will consider complaints lodged by an environmental group next week. Civil Movement’s United for Rivers and Lakes has twice filed complaints alleging that the Government has ignored or allowed to occur environmental damage in numerous river basins.

Lower courts have rejected the complaints which the SSC will now consider.

The environmental group says it can identify damage in the Ongi, Zavkhan, Ulz, Tuul, Khagiltsag, Khuder, Yeruu, and Gatsuurt river basins, mainly due to mining operations. The group says the Government should pay to restore the damaged areas. The group also wants the Government to cancel the permits of mining companies operating in the basin, in accordance with a law banning mineral exploration and exploitation in river and forest basins.