"Moscow Komsomolets": the leadership of the hydroelectric power station in Mongolia will hold hearings in the Angara region and Buryatia

Ecologists have announced the intention of the management of hydroelectric power plants in Mongolia in the Selengi pool to hold public hearings in the Irkutsk region and Buryatia.

The International Coalition of the “River without Borders” announced the intention of the leadership of the investment support project for the development of the mining industry Minis to hold public hearings in the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia on the construction projects of the HPS Schuren on Selenga and the Obvodnoye Channel from the tributary of the Selenga, the Gobi Desert. According to MK Baikal, the Russian coordinator of the coalition Alexander Kolotov, according to ecologists, public hearings will be held in July - August 2016.

“When the last time our coalition was in Mongolia, we met with the organizers of the Minis project in

Ulan-Bator

. We were presented with a preliminary monthly schedule of public hearings, ”said Alexander Kolotov MK Baikal. - We did not agree with the schedule proposed by the Mongol side, since it suggested the start of the hearings in June this year. In accordance with Russian law, it is necessary to notify the population in advance, for a month, so we proposed to shift the schedule. ”

As Alexander Kolotov emphasized, environmentalists also insist on re -conducting public hearings on these projects in Mongolia. “Local residents have already been submitted by the hydroelectric power station

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, there is a large -scale work with the population. But the hearings must be held again, because the projects were changed taking into account the comments of our coalition, ”the ecologist explained. “When holding public hearings in Russia, the same similar hearings should be held on the Mongol side, in which the same documents should be submitted, only in the Mongolian language so that we all discuss the same thing.”

As MK Baikal reported, the international coalition of the River without Borders named Mongolia's readiness to begin dialogue for the construction projects of the hydroelectric power station on Selenga by the result of public discussion in the Kaban district of Buryatia, which environmentalists organized in February 2016 together with the district administration. According to MK Baikal, the Russian coordinator of the coalition Alexander Kolotov, according to the results of this discussion, the proposals and comments of local residents and experts participating in it were translated into English and sent to the leadership of the Minis project, to the World Bank and Chinese

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The bank that occupies the financing of the construction of the hydroelectric power station.

During consultations on construction projects on the territory of Mongolia hydroelectric power plants and hydraulic control, which took place on May 23–24 in

Ulan-Bator

, experts of Russia and Mongolia agreed to conduct an open discussion on assessing the impact on the environment of the project of the construction of the hydroelectric power station of the Shuren on the Selenga River. According to data

press service

The Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, the Mongolian side will also present a report on the hydrological influence of Seleng and Lake Baikal to another planned hydroelectric power station, which it was decided to build a river on the tributary of the river -

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as well as the technical justification of the project of this hydroelectric station.

The parties also agreed to begin additional studies on the influence of the Eviangol Hydroelectric Power Station on the biodiversity of Selenga and Baikal. According to the results of the meeting, the parties decided to hold open consultations on the development and assessment of environmental impacts and social consequences of projects “Construction of the Schurenskaya hydroelectric power station” and “The creation of a reservoir with the regulation of runoff on the Orkhon River” in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region with the participation of the World Bank.

In the summer of 2015, the World Bank supported the position of environmental organizations that consider the threat to Baikal ecosystem planned by the Government of Mongolia the construction of hydroelectric power plants on Selenga and its tributaries. According to data

press service

Greenpeace Russia, the project caused anxiety and inspectors of the World Bank, who recently visited Buryatia and Mongolia. Now the project management should take into account all the comments that environmentalists outlined in their multi -page complaint during the year. After this period, the Board of Directors of the World Bank will again return to the consideration of the fate of the project.

Earlier, Russian activists of the River without border international coalitions achieved the arrival of the World Bank Inspection Commission to the Baikal region, which, according to the results of the ecological condition of rivers and reservoirs in Buryatia, was supposed to provide the Board of Directors on the advisability of the bank’s participation in financing the construction of the hydroelectric power station in Mongolia. Members of the commission arrived in Buryatia after the bank adopted a complaint about the actions of the Mongol authorities, which impede the objective discussion of the consequences of the construction of the hydroelectric power station in the Selengi River basin.

In Mongolia, it is proposed to build three hydroelectric power stations - one on the selenge itself and two on its tributaries - Orchon and

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. Earlier, the World Bank announced its intention to maintain the project of infrastructure support for the production industry, which is necessary in large numbers of cheap electricity. This problem, according to the Mongols, should solve the hydroelectric power station on Selenga. Chinese

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The bank expressed his readiness to allocate $ 1 billion for the construction of hydroelectric power station for

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.

Ilya Novikov/ "Moscow Komsomolets", June 2, 2016