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International Conference “Underground Waters – 2017” will be held on November 23-25, 2017 in Yessentuki. The event is organised by the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the International Association of Hydrogeologists, the Geological Center of St. Petersburg State University, the Eurasian Union of Subsoil Use Experts.
The conference will be attended by representatives of the government authorities of the Russian Federation, representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use, the State Commission on Mineral Reserves, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the heads of large companies - subsoil users, scientific and scientific-production hydrogeological organizations, leading Russian geologists and foreign specialists.

The Open Day in the videoconference mode for entrepreneurs of small and medium business was held today in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The main topics of discussion were: reporting on the formation, use, neutralization and disposal of waste formed in a result of economic and other activities. Specialists of the Ministry of Ecology answered questions of entrepreneurs.

A number of measures to improve the quality of gas treatment plants were made according to the requirements of ecologists in the Chelny enterprise Les Service. According to the instructions of the inspectors of the Prikamsky Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the company has improved the quality of the gas-dust collecting unit and the sealing of joints and assemblies.

With the intellectual ECO-fest was ended the first quarter in gymnasium No. 2 in the Chistopol district. A cognitive event for students was conducted by the teachers together with specialists from the Volga-Kama territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation has developed a draft resolution of the Government of Russia “On the approval of criteria for classifying production facilities used by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs that have a negative impact on the environment, to a certain risk category for regional state environmental supervision.” This is reported on the agency’s website.

Appeal about garbage under the windows of one of the residential buildings on the Tbilisskaya street of Aviastroitelny District of Kazan was received by the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Inspectors found out that the heaps formed due to untimely removal of garbage. This is observed every spring and autumn, residents of nearby houses explained.

To popularize the culture of careful attitude to nature. Ecologists of the republic joined the All-Russian Festival of Energy Saving “Together Brighter”. Within the framework of the action timed to the Year of Ecology in Russia, the inspectors of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan conducted lessons on an environmental theme in a number of general educational institutions of Kazan.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan announces the start of the republican contest ECOleader. The most eco-friendly enterprises and educational institutions whose task is to teach how to care of nature, public figures who are not indifferent to environmental problems and, of course, journalists who during the year became real assistants to the inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan, are invited to participate.

The works are accepted for the following groups and nominations:

Today, a delegation from the Kyrgyz Republic, as part of studying the Tatarstan experience in the projects “Safe City” and “E-Government”, familiarized with the republican policy in the field of environmental protection. First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Kamalov told the guests about the functioning of the territorial monitoring system for the state of the environment, material and technical base and information technologies in the work of Tatarstan environmentalists. The greatest interest among the guests was caused by the air quality control system.

How did life on Earth appear? How did the evolution go? In the first ecological class of Tatarstan a practical lesson in natural science was held. A visiting lesson for schoolchildren was held by the natural science club Pilgrim of the Museum-Reserve “Kazan Kremlin”. During the interactive session, the children were told what the main difference of the Earth from other planets is, what the first living organisms were, and how the evolution of the plant and animal life went.