Leonid Potapov: "You can agree with the Mongols"

The first President of Buryatia Leonid Potapov, who led the republic in 1990-2007, in a large interview with Ulanmedia affected the topic of Baikal's development. Answering the question about his attitude to the projects for the construction of hydroelectric power plants in the Selenga River basin, which Mongolia is being worked out, Potapov replied: “negatively”.

“We must work well with the Mongols. I had a good relationship with them. The station will be built, there will probably be violations there, and water will not reach Baikal. I am against. You can agree with the Mongols, otherwise Baikal will also dilute Selenga. 62% of the water collection is a selenga ” -

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also Potapov.

Speaking of Baikal, Leonid Potapov said that "productive forces should be placed in such a way that they do not harm Baikal." “Now the real tragedy in the Baikal territory. On average, 3 thousand people are without work. What is our worker to do in the Baikal natural territory now? To poach, ”the politician summed up.

In his opinion, in the water collection zone of the lake, only such a production can be developed that will not harm Baikal. “Water spill, for example. Livestock can be developed. Put the toilets in order not to run along the paths. Crowning, garbage engines to do ... The meat processing plant should not discard everything into the river, which is included in Baikal, it is necessary to make a closed water turn. Then there will be increased costs, but you can ask the state to compensate for them. Fishery plants now cannot catch omul even on caviar. But this cannot be ruined, it is necessary to restore. I do not want to transfer to private hands, it should be state -owned. There should be a state enterprise in this type of production. Foresting: You can’t leave everything on the ground, you need to collect in briquettes for yourself. ”

He is also sure that “it is necessary to preserve the Baikal natural territory”: “What is a species point? There is a seal sitting, everything should be equipped for tourists. Everyone trampled around. The infrastructure must be thought out. ”

I affected Potapov and the topic of alignment of energy tariffs between Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, in fact

Supporting the recent initiative

The current head of the Republic of Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn. “We collect water. They collected water, through Baikal we transmit

Angaro-Senisei

cascade. Water is cheap electricity, and

We

We carry increased environmental costs, but we have nothing from this. The hydropower reputation must be calculated, how much Buryatia should go. The Irkutsk region has two and a half - three times lower tariffs than ours. Why? We carry costs, punish us. This must be proved and calculated, prove what is happening with Buryatia. I’m just going to the strategic planning council now, I am forming my proposals, ”said Potapov. In Soviet times, Buryatia compensated for increased environmental costs, he also recalled.

Leonid Potapov since 2009 - Leading researcher at the regional department

socio-economic

research of the Buryat Scientific Center SB RAS. He led Buryatia in fact since April 1990, when he was elected the first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU. In October 1991, at a session of the Supreme Council of the Buryat SSR, he was elected its chairman, and in the 1994 popular elections, the first president of Buryatia. The second time he won the presidential election on June 21, 1998, gaining 63.3% of the votes; On June 23, 2002, he was elected the president of the republic for a third term, having won the first round with a result of 67% of the vote. He resigned his authority in July 2007, after which he worked as an assistant to the head of the Presidential Administration.