Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources to monitor the situation in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory in connection with the resumption of production of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill.
"We must carefully analyze what it will take place in connection with the reopening of the pulp and paper mill. He works a long time - since the late 1960"s. As reported to the researchers, when I was this summer on Lake Baikal, no change in the ecological plan during the time of the enterprise for decades, is not observed, have been detected, "- said the head of the government at a working meeting with the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Yuri Trutnev.
In turn, Trutnev told the Prime Minister that he held a meeting with Oleg Deripaska, controlling mill. "He said that they had no time with some refinement of the technologies, but also ensure that within three years of full-fledged technology does not allow any discharges into Lake Baikal, and the topic will be completely closed," - said t1000he head of Ministry of Natural Resources.
In January 2010, the Government lifted the ban on the production of pulp, paper, cardboard and products from them without the use of drainage water management systems, which operated in the central ecological zone of Baikal natural territory. Thus, the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill will be able to resume their work.
Since the founding of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill in 1966, the company has repeatedly demanded the closure. In October 2008, work was stopped by CBK on demand Rosprirodnadzor obligated to move to combine closed loop spillway. In autumn 2009 the company introduced a procedure of observation, but in early 2010 BPPM resumed production.
Environmentalists appealed to the President of Russia with a demand to abolish a government decree allowing the work of CBK.
"We are confident that this decision was in favor of short-term interests of the owners BPPM" - said in a letter to Greenpeace Russia Dmitry Medvedev. "We urge you to direct the efforts of state for real projects on alternative socio-economic development of Baikalsk, for which all conditions", - reads the text of the letter.
The main shareholder of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill is owned by Continental Management, part of the Basic Element of Oleg Deripaska.
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