In 2024, Norilsk Nickel will dismantle about 50 old buildings and structures, clean up to 600,000 square meters of territories from garbage and reclaim up to 100 hectares of land as part of its Clean Norilsk program.
Stanislav Seleznev, Vice President of the company for Ecology and Industrial Safety, told TASS that the pace of implementation of the program to clean up Norilsk from accumulated waste will be maintained. The company plans to allocate more than 3 billion rubles for these purposes.
The Clean Norilsk program started in 2021 and will last for 10 years.
In three years, about 350 old buildings and structures were dismantled, 1 million tons of waste were removed, the territory on an area of more than 4 million square meters was cleared. The total cost of implementing the program, together with the purchase of equipment, amounted to 14.5 billion rubles. The total volume of planned investments is 40 billion rubles.
The Clean Norilsk project has become the best environmental practice in the Russian Arctic.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
