The meeting of the board of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan “On the results of work of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in the 1st half-year of 2014” was held under the chairmanship of the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov.
Head of the Department for the use of mineral resources, natural resources and environmental protection of the Executive Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Faskhutdinov, Assistant to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan for the issues regarding oil, gas and chemical complex Almaz Galeev, prosecutor of the Kazan Interdistrict Nature Protection Prosecutor’s Office Oleg Daminov, Chairperson of the Public Council under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Andrey Kalayda, Head of the Department of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Natural Resources Use for the Republic of Tatarstan Farit Khayrutdinov, Head of the Department of the Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare for the Republic of Tatarstan Marina Patyashina, as well as members of the board of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, heads of ministries of the Republic of Tatarstan, federal executive authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Tatarstan, members of the Public Council of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of companies and organizations, heads of structural subdivisions of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as representatives of the public and mass media also participated in the meeting.
Before the reports were heard, companies and organizations of the Republic of Tatarstan that actively participated in the two-month sanitary and ecological campaign 2014 were awarded with the Letters of gratitude and Certificates of Merit following the results of the event.
First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Kamalov made the main report on the results of work of the Ministry in the first half-year period of 2014 in the field of nature protection, and he also informed on the tasks set up to the end of 2014.
Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan – Chief State Inspector of the Republic of Tatarstan for Nature Protection, Ramil Nizamov, Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan for Mineral Resources Use, Timur Akchurin, Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan for Investment and Innovation Activity, Marat Bakaev, also made reports.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.