A citizen of Nizhnekamsk helped ecological specialists identify an offender who violated the nature protection legislation
21 April 2016, Thursday
A whole truckload of wood waste - branches and brushwood - was dumped by a driver of a KAMAZ truck on to the territory located behind the State Budgetary Institution "Nizhnekamsk District State Veterinary Association" located on Promyshlennaya street. An offense was registered by a citizen of Nizhnekamsk. She referred the information to the Trans-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan attaching the photos proving the offense. The fact of the offense was confirmed when the inspectors visited the site. Ecological specialists initiated administrative proceedings according to Article 8.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation("Failure to comply with ecological and sanitary&epidemiological requirements in the course of management of production and consumption waste, the substances destroying the ozone layer, as well as other hazardous substances") and started administrative investigation.
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Today, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan hosted an open New Year's Eve meeting with journalists, which lasted almost two hours.