(gnkk.ru) - The experts of the Krasnoyarsk Territory’s Ministry of Ecology are investigating the areas where waste accumulated. They collect official data showing that landfills do harm to the environment and these dumps will be included in the state register of objects causing accumulated environment damage. After that, a design and estimate documentation will be developed, an environmental review will be carried out, and liquidation work will begin. It is planned to complete the ‘census’ of landfills by the end of 2025.
Earlier, 28 unauthorized landfills were identified in Norilsk, Dudinka and Dikson on a total area of more than 1 mn square metres. Yulia Gumenyuk, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Rational Nature Management of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, spoke about launching a full-scale cleaning campaign in the north of the Territory.
The dumps sites in the Taimyr area are a legacy of the Soviet era. It is planned remove them using the funds allocated for such federal projects as the “Clean Country” and the “Full-Scale Cleaning” held under the “Ecology” national project.
Dmitry Karasyov, Head of Norilsk, stressed that currently only 10 large unauthorized dump sites had been identified near the northern city. Until the end of 2023, they will be included into the state register.
In addition, Svetlana Radionova, Head of Rosprirodnadzor (Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service), said that it would take five to six years to clean up the Arctic. According to her, the cleaning campaign is in full swing; and the volunteers of the “Clean Arctic” public project funded from extrabudgetary sources take a part in it.
