About 20 hectares of forest is to be cut down, and on another 85 hectares the forest will "get thinner," the report says. Bursik said this is the first disclosed piece of information to deal with the project's environmental impact. The Internet server Tyden.cz recently cited Bursik, while answering opposition Communist MP Vladimir Konicek's question, as saying that the environmental study related to the radar can only be used for a rough orientation. Bursik explained today that he had answered to Czech ForMin wants Prague to ratify Lisbon treaty by year-end ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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