Ecologicalspecialistsacknowledged thatlandsintended for large familiesare unfit for use
31 October 2013, Thursday
TheMinistryofEcologyandNaturalResourcesof the Republic of Tatarstan conducted work on inspection and coordination of land plots intended for large families. SinceMarch 1, 2012, 18,311 landplotshavebeeninspectedontheterritoryof 43 municipal districtsof the Republic of Tatarstan, selection of 5,525 land plots has been coordinated, 11,184 samples have been taken:10,211 air samples, 489 snow cover samples, and 484 soil samples.
Followingtheresultsofanalyticalcontrol,maximum permissible concentrations of pollutants have been exceeded on 24 land plots. Duringthesecondinspection, excessive maximum permissible concentrations of pollutants (oil products)were confirmedin soil on the land plot located on the territory of Almetyevsk, SU-2 district, South-Eastern building estate.
For this cause, by the order of the Executive Committee of Almetyevsk Municipal district it was decided to suspend allocation of land plotsto large families on the given territory.
FollowingtheresultsofecologicalsurveillanceconductedbyfellowworkersoftheSouth-EasternTerritorialDepartmentunder the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, documents related to soil pollution were transferred to Almetyevsk Municipal Prosecutor’s Officeand Tatar Nature Protection Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office for the prosecution response measures to be taken.
AlmetyevskMunicipalCourtsustained stated claims of Almetyevsk Municipal Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan to“North-Westernmain oil pipelines”OAO on reclamation of oil contaminated soils on the land plot by August 31, 2015.
Acontractforthelandplotreclamationisconcludedbetween“AC “Transneft”OAO,“North-Westernmain oil pipelines” OAO, and“ARSU” LLCto the amount of 261 million 899 thousand rubles.
Complexworkonreclamationincludingsoildisinfection, extraction ofreinforced concrete tanks, biological purification usingmicrobial strains has been conducted sinceJune 27, 2013.
As part of the new national project "Environmental well-being" Tatarstan has planned the implementation of 8 environmental initiatives with total funding of 3 billion rubles. The main part of the funds will be used for work on the federal project "Water of Russia", Minister of Ecology Azat Ziganshin said at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Today, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Azat Ziganshin spoke at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was dedicated to the start of the sanitary and ecological two-month period and environmental work plans for 2026 within the framework of the national project "Environmental well-being".
Today, at the weekly staff meeting with the heads of structural and territorial divisions, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Azat Ziganshin, presented badges and official identification cards to the staff of the department.