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September, 2, 2010:Yakutian law-makers to work out oil-pollution acts |
The republican parliament now has a special working group focusing on development of measures to raise ecological safety at ESPO oil pipeline and other large-scale industrial projects.
At the first session the working group decided to carry out monitoring of the current ecological legislation in the Russian Federation and Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Having done so, the group decided to outline a conceptual document on advancing the nature protection legislation. The document will include a draft law on oil pollution to be first read by the parliamentarians this fall.
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August,30,2010:Update on ESPO oilspill in Olyokminsky region in southern Yakutia |
The Department of the Federal Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic from the 8th to 15th of July, 2010, made an extraplanned documentary inspection due
to the ascertained fact of an oil spill on ES-PO oil-pipeline in Olekminsk region.
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August,30,2010:Update on ESPO oil pipeline spill in Lensky region, Southern Yakutia |
We received answer from the Nature Protection Ministry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) telling about the breakage on the ESPO oil pipeline in January this year in Lensky region in southern Yakutia and the emergency recovery work being done.
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Organizing committee |
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Ekaterina Evseyeva,
Eyge Environmental
Education Center Valentina Dmitrieva,
civil coalition
"Our homeland Yakutia" Arsen Tomsky,
company "SakhaInternet" Maria Ivanova,
chief editor newspaper
"Yakutsk Vecherniy " Yuri Jegusovâ Terenti Ermolaev |
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The Action is supported by: |
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London
Zoological Society WWF Russia Andrei E,
traveller, TV program host
Oksana Vasilyeva,
world champion in female boxing among professionals, honoured master of sports in Russia
Coalition of ecologists
of Siberia and Russian Far East |
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February,17,2010:450 cubic meters of oil spilt on the ESPO oil pipeline in Lensky region |
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The first big oil spill on ESPO oil pipeline happened in the Lensky region on January, 18th, 2010.
But federal, republican and nongovernmental organizations of Yakutia were only informed of that accident on January, 20th, 2010. From coalition of ecologists we sent letters to various controlling and survey institutions and received some information from them regarding the cause of oil spill, the measures taken and the cost of damage to environment. When have all the answers come, we will publish the information here.
Together with our colleagues and partners we sent open petition letters to the presidents of Russia, Yakutia and Transneft company asking them to organize independent inter-structural commission analyzing the cause of oil spill and the actions taken by the officials.
We also gave couples of interviews for TV and newspapers and yesterday, on February 16th, we took part in the session of the republican parliamentary meeting on ecological issues of ESPO oil pipeline where the deputies agreed on our suggestion to organize independent controlling commission and include public ecologists. It was also agreed that with this sad accident it is needed to continue the work on outlining the law of oil spill in the republic. As for other measures for ecological safety of the oil pipeline the exploiting company Vostoknefteprovod announced that they will build the reserve crossings of the Lena river by 2013, staring in 2011. However, the method of crossing is still under consideration on the projecting institution. |
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