(neftegaz.ru) - The Government of the Russian Federation has approved a set of measures to minimize pollution of the Russian Arctic zone, according to the official government website.
The corresponding ordinance was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The plan includes 13 measures to reduce emissions into the atmosphere and discharges into sea and river waters.
Each part of the plan is assigned to a specific ministry or department.
The Russian Ministry of Construction, the Russian Ministry of Energy and regional authorities will have to reduce the use of coal and fuel oil as fuel, as well as to modernize boiler houses and thermal power plants to convert them to natural gas, biofuels or wood pellets and wood chips.
The Ministry of Energy has also to develop plans to stimulate the transition of road, sea and inland water transport to natural gas motor fuel.
The Ministry of Construction and the Arctic regional authorities should develop programs for the construction and modernization of treatment facilities.
The work will go in two directions:
cleaning of household sewer drains in settlements,
collection and treatment of wastewater from ships calling at Arctic ports.
In addition, the list of activities includes the review of proposals to increase fines for emissions and discharges of pollutants into the atmosphere and into the sea and river waters.
Responsible for these activities are the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Management (Rosprirodnadzor), the Ministry of Energy and regional authorities.
This set of measures is part of the plan to implement the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Arctic and the Strategy for the Development of the Arctic Zone until 2035.
