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"Close the BCBK" (procession and rally in Irkutsk)
In Irkutsk today, another rally in the defense of Lake Baikal took place. At first, people who were not indifferent to the problem of the “Holy Lake” gathered near the “House of Life” on Uritsky Street, then went to the column to Karl Marx Street, then along the sidewalk of Proletarskaya to the Square of “Labor”, where the rally took place. I note that police officers did not overlap the movement on these streets. They explained this by the fact that it was decided on the commission when the organizers of the event coordinated a notification to conduct a procession and rally. It turned out that the protest was generally forbidden to hold if the organizers had not gone to such conditions. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Irkutsk Region Valery Lukin, who was present at the shares, recommended that the organizers next time if there were such problems with approval, seek help from him.
So, about the rally. With this action, Irkutsk activists celebrated the next anniversary of the signing by Vladimir Putin, which essentially legalized the re -launch of the Baikal Central Bank after its stop in 2008. In addition, at the end of January, the deadline for fulfilling the obligation that the Government of the Russian Federation took in 2010 at the UNESCO session expires to preserve Lake Baikal. Ecologists say that if the problem is not resolved, there will be grounds for starting a public campaign to transfer Lake Baikal to the World Natural Heritage List under threat, since Baikal’s pollution by drains and air emissions of the BCC threatens the unique value of the Lake Baikal World Heritage Party.
The first to act was one of the organizers, Irkutsk Valery Teterin.
Here is what he said: “Now it is said a lot about the problem of the BCBK. We hear a lot of promises on the part of the authorities to solve this problem. To solve in one and a half, two and a half years. We hear that economic problems are again at the BCBK. But I want to say about something else. What they promise to us, what they promised to do if they wanted to do it. UNESCO, in order to solve this problem: why they did not solve it? I give it for themselves: because they are not even by the exploiters, because the exploiter, whatever they may be, he always thinks about how to make his production so that its production will develop and, in the end, can continue Vladimirovich, Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich, Deripaska and all the others - they are not even by exploiters, but parasites, a kind of saucers who are sucked here from our country, from our region, and pouring it out of our region. ”
"Close the BCSBK" - such a slogan organizers of the protest chosen chose for the protest as the main one. Speaking to the audience of the event, the co-chair of the Iroo “Baikal Ecological Wave”, Marina Rikhova, explained the decision of the organizing committee: “These words turn to each of us personally, they turn to power too, turn to the individuals, because the individuals often hide for some ranks and do not bear personal responsibility, and no one, unfortunately, does not bear personal responsibility now Responsibility for what is happening: "Close the BCB". Implemented in 2012, according to our plan, the bodies of state power acted: the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Industrial Development agreed to carry out a comprehensive audit of the industrial site of the BCBC and the sludge. And such audits were carried out, but their results remain unknown to the wide layers of people. And only those who may want to make a profit from these projects that he will implement. And keeps this information as know-how. We believe that everything related to the BCC and sludge -taces, the information must be made public, all projects must be held public discussion and an open project competition must be announced when you can speak about the future Baikalsk and make your own contribution to this future. ”
Marina Rikhovaova also said that over the past few years, more than a thousand alternative jobs in the field of small and medium -sized businesses have been created in Baikalsk, a small business support fund has been opened.
About seventy people gathered for the procession and rally. Ecologists were supported by Irkutsk anarchists and communists. The first secretary of the Irkutsk city committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, Olga Nosenko, at the rally, said that from February 1 they begin to hold a people's referendum, one of the issues of which concerns the solution to the problem of the Baikal Central Bank.
During the rally, the activist of the Baikal Movement Natalya Chelpanova made an unexpected offer. She said that it would be nice to seek help from the French actress Bridget Bardo.
“For three years now, as we, activists of the“ Baikal movement ”have been fighting for closing the Baikal cellulose-paper plant. During this time we have been holding the seventh rally, have held a huge number of pickets, collected a huge number of signatures and all to no avail. And recently I had an idea, I read the enthusiastic review of the French actress Bardit about our president, thanks to the decree of which again She launched the BCC that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin fulfills her requests now, and now she would have to turn to Putin to close the BCC, because the voice of his people Putin no longer hears. It is ridiculous, ”said Natalia Chelpanova.
At the end of the protest rally, Valery Teterin read out the draft rally resolution. The requirements of the assembled, addressed to the leadership of the Russian Federation: to cancel Decree No. 1, which Vladimir Putin signed on January 13, 2010, adopt a resolution in which the plan for the closure of the BCC with specifically deadlines and performers would be normatively enshrined, publish the results of environmental audits of the industrial site of the BCC and slotted circuit breakers; hold an open competition of projects on the industrial site of the BCC, offered as an alternative; Conduct a public discussion of projects for the reclamation of the BCCB sludge. Environmentalists from the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation require legislative acts that would exclude the activities of environmentally hazardous enterprises on Lake Baikal, would make a mandatory state environmental examination of investment projects in the Baikal natural territory. The activists indicated the term for the decision on January 31, 2013. The document was unanimously adopted by the protesters and will be sent to President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in the near future, as well as the chairmen of the Chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Eroshchenko.