Closed BCBC continues to pollute Lake Baikal

The Baikal cellulose-paper plant suspended the work continues to pollute Baikal. Rosprirodnadzor did not see a decrease in the negative impact of BCBK on the lake.

“The polluted groundwater horizon under the territory of the BCBC continues to have a negative impact on Lake Baikal. No stable dynamics indicate a decrease in the degree of this effect ” -

quotes

Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Siberian Federal District Evgeny Kalinin TASS.

Work on "Monolithicization

Shlah-lignin

", As one of the types of precipitation of wastewater, did not lead to a decrease in pollution, Kalinin said. “As a result, the expected environmental effect is not achieved,” he emphasized.

“It is necessary to resume the functioning of the intercepting water intake, or develop other measures to eliminate the focus of pollution,” said the head of the department of Rosprirodnadzor, who clarified that in general the situation improved after the enterprise stop.

The construction of the plant began in 1961. The company was supposed to produce super -strength cordal cellulose for the defense industry. Next to the BTsBK, the village of Stroitelov was founded, which later became the city of Baikal.

In October 2008, the Baikal Central Bank was closed in connection with the transition to a closed water circulation system, which prohibits the enterprise with the discharge of industrial drains to Baikal and the use of chlorine when bleaching cellulose. The release of bleached cellulose has become impossible, and the production of an unprecedented turned out to be unprofitable for the plant.

January 13, 2010

Prime Minister

Vladimir Putin eliminated the production of cellulose, paper and cardboard from the list of types of activity prohibited on Baikal. His resolution allowed the BCC to resume the release of bleached cellulose and drain industrial waste to Baikal. In the summer of 2010, the BCBK earned, causing the protests of ecologists, prosecutors and public figures, which have continued so far.

In 2012, bankruptcy proceedings were introduced at the enterprise, the VEB opened a credit line for him. In February 2013, a decision was made on the gradual closure of the BCC with the transfer of production. Official closure of the BCC

took place

In December 2015.