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Inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology have revealed 1,172 violations of the water protection legislation this year. The fines were imposed to the amount of over 6 mln rub. Such figures were announced today by the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Farid Abdulganiev, at the interdepartmental meeting held today at the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tatarstan under the chairmanship of Ildus Nafikov. The matters related to implementation of joint inspections in the field of water use by the prosecution authorities were on the agenda. Moreover, the results of prosecutor's investigations in the field of laws on production and consumption waste were also discussed. 

The meeting included Volga Interregional Nature Protection Prosecutor Veniamin Selifanov, heads of state authorities

The ХI All-Russian Research to Practice Conference "Industrial Ecology and Safety" named after Anatoly Ivanovich Schepovskikh was held today at the Kazan Fair, in the Conference Hall "Kama" in memory of the First Minister for Nature Protection in the Republic of Tatarstan. Year after year the event is held by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan within the framework of the Tatar Oil, Gas and Chemical Forum. "Constant attraction of attention of the representatives of state authorities, business communities and public to the matters of assurance of ecological safety on the basis of the state-of-art developments of Russian and foreign companies and scientific organizations will allow to solve the problems accumulated in this field more successfully", acknowledged the Minister for Ecology, Farid Abdulganiev, in his welcoming speech. According to him, the conferences held over the past years proved their efficiency and productivity promoting fruitful cooperation of specialists in various fields of industry and science in

On September 8th, members of the underwater research and development team of the Russian Geographical Society n.a. Alexey Leonov start out for an expedition to study the North Seas of Russia. Exploration work will be carried out at the Kara Sea and will be the foundation for new stages of the project "13 seas of Russia". This was discussed today during the press conference at the Information Agency "Tatar-Inform". "Tatar branch

In order to simplify the procedure for granting of the right to extract ground waters in the amount of less than 100 m3 per day for food water supply and public water supply or technical provision of industrial and agricultural facilities, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia elaborated the relevant amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation "On mineral resources".

The document was introduced to the Government of the Russian Federation.

In compliance with the applicable legislation, if ground waters are extracted in the amount of less than 100 m3 per day, no

Ecological specialists carried out another raid on monitoring of the quality of water in the Kazanka River. The experts of the State Inspection of Ecological Surveillance together with the Central Specialized Inspection of Analytical Control drew samples of natural water from 7 places. The content of oxygen in the water body was established using an express analysis - all the parameters are within normal limits.  As a reminder, an operative group on inspection and monitoring of the water territory of the Kazanka River was created on August 1st by the order of the Minister of Ecology and Natural

The nature protection campaign "Clean forests of the Republic of Tatarstan" aimed at creation of the favorable sanitary and ecological situation in forests is to start on September 15th. As a rule, nature protection authorities, volunteers, active participants of the ecological

The world campaign "Car Free Day" will be held on September 22nd to  remind people of the negative influence of vehicles on the environment and to urge people to think over the idea to use alternative transportation means, for instance public transportation or a bike. The main slogan of the Day: "A city as the space for people and the space for living". Traditionally, on a Car Free Day, fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan will get to work using public transportation

The applications are accepted until September 9th for participation in the Second International Ecological Forum "Nature protection and rational use of natural resources: Modern state and trends of development" that is to be held in Kaluga on September 15th. This is a platform for open dialog, discussion of the most relevant matters regarding environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, exchange of opinions and experience, establishment of business contacts among the population,

Farid Abdulganiev, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, laid the foundation of the ECO parkway on the territory of the Specialized School No. 3 within the framework of the campaign "Help your school". Teachers and pupils of the Specialized school No. 3 helped plant the seedlings of blue spruce, poplar, mountain ash, and meadowsweet. "When I was a pupil, such campaigns were held regularly. I remember perfectly well the classes that were called "An ECO path", - special attention has always been paid by the specialized school to the matters of ecological education, and we decided to carry on the tradition", acknowledged

The All-Russian campaign on cleaning of the coastlines of water bodies "Water of Russia" will last until the end of September. The event is held within the framework of the Federal target program "Development of the water economic complex of the Russian Federation in 2012-2020". The coastlines of small rivers and water bodies are cleaned from June 1 to September 30, 2016. It is anticipated that about 500,000 volunteers from all the regions will join the campaign in 2016; about 75 regions have carried