Tatarstan President: In twenty years, the number of harmful emissions in Tatarstan has decreased by 20%
Since 1998, the volume of harmful emissions into the atmosphere in Tatarstan has decreased by 20%. This was stated by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today.
"Big projects on ecology (there were also your comments at the last meeting). Over the past twenty-odd years, the volume of our gross product has almost tripled, and the number of emissions [has been reduced] by 20%, the number of discharges – by almost 60 percent," the press service of the Kazan Kremlin quotes Rustam Minnikhanov.
The President of Tatarstan noted that a lot of work is underway to modernize biological treatment facilities and other projects.
Let us recall that at the final board of the Ministry of Ecology, which took place on January 20, Ecology Minister Alexander Shadrikov said that within the framework of the national project "Ecology" the republic took part in 4 federal projects - these are "Improving the Volga", "Clean Country", "Preservation of unique water bodies" and "Conservation of forests". So, in 2022, according to the federal project "Improving the Volga" of the national project "Ecology", 6,387.0 million rubles were allocated in two directions, including 5,025.8 million rubles from the federal budget. 2,786.2 million rubles have been allocated for the continuation of work on the reconstruction of biological sewage treatment plants in Kazan, which are among the top 200 main pollutants of the Volga. The work is planned until 2024. 3,600.8 million rubles were allocated for the "Elimination of objects of accumulated environmental damage that pose a threat to the Volga River" for the 2nd objects. This includes the recultivation of silt fields of biological treatment facilities in Kazan, with an area of about 100 hectares, and for a project to dismantle inactive pipelines of the Lake Oil field in the waters of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir. "The project that is currently being implemented in the silt fields is a pilot and at the moment the only one on such a scale in Russia. In 2023 we will finish the technical stage of work, and in 2024 we will move on to the biological stage of reclamation," Shadrikov said. Also, in 2022, under the federal project "Preservation of Unique Water Bodies", federal subventions in the amount of 113.2 million rubles were allocated for clearing the right tributary of the Mesha River and cleaning the pond in the village of Derzhavino, clearing the right tributary of the Vyatka River in Mamadysh, clearing the Bersut riverbed near the village of Kamsky Lespromkhoz.