Baikal’s defense was postponed to November

The representation of the Baikal parliamentary group was held in Irkutsk with an accelerated regime, with complaints and without the main characters.

The Baikal Interfractional Deputy Group, uniting the State Duma deputies from the regions of the Baikalia (Irkutsk region, the Republic of Buryatia, the Trans -Baikal Territory), held an exit meeting in Irkutsk. True, two important members of the group did not arrive at it - Sergey Ten (United Russia faction) and Mikhail Shchapov (the Communist Party faction) representing the Irkutsk region, and Ten is the head of the MDG. The chairman of the meeting was appointed deputy Andrei Chernyshev, elected to the State Duma from Bratsk and the northern regions of the Irkutsk region. Somewhere from the middle of the meeting, deputies Nikolai Nikolaev (Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, Property and Land Relations) and Alexei Krasnoshtanov connected to the work of the group.

A very important group

The agenda consisted, in fact, of two questions: presentations of the inter -fraction group for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region and officials, as well as from the report on the provision of affairs with the project “Baikal - the Great Lake of the Great Country”. Opening the meeting, Andrei Chernyshev reminded the history of the interfacing group: its first composition worked in the Duma of the VI convocation, and in the VII convocation the group was restored only in June of this year. Sergey Ten was elected the chairman, the task of the group was to promote the development of the Baikal, to improve the legislation on the protection of Lake Baikal, to increase the living standards of the residents of the Macro Region. “I hope for a dialogue with authorities, business, active citizens of all our regions. I am sure that together we will be able to solve all the problems facing us, ”Chernyshev read from a piece of paper in an official tone.

He immediately warned that the entire event was allocated for the entire event, just an hour and a half for three regions, for the performance of the speakers is given no more than five minutes. Already along this framework it was clear: the speakers would have to make exceptional efforts, so that later it would not be painfully painful for the in vain spent time.

The chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Brilka greeted all those present “on the shores of Lake Baikal”, to which from the Irkutsk “Baikal Business Center”, where the meeting was held, at least 70 km. Without delaying the case in a long box, Brick moved from hopes related to the Great Lake program to the disappointment that regional authorities are experiencing due to the lack of funds to protect the lake and the restrictions imposed on economic activities by the Law Protection Law. “There are 200 settlements around Baikal, people have been living in them for centuries. And the law forbids them ... almost everything, - Brilka said with an emphasis on the last word. - We are counting on our deputies, on the support of the president. We hope that ecologists will not torpedo literally all our proposals. A man in Baikal lived, lives and will live. I wish all participants in the meeting of new proposals that will help save the lake and develop the economy. ”

Andrei Chernyshev recalled that the first task of the interfacing group is to form a work plan for the next year. At the suggestion of the deputy from the Trans -Baikal Territory Vasilina Kulieva, in the first quarter of 2018, a meeting of the Baikal group will be held in Chita (the collection and disposal of household waste will be discussed). In Buryatia, an exit meeting will take place in the third quarter of 2017, but the republican authorities have not yet decided on the topic. This is not surprising: in September, the elections of the head of the republic will be held, acting as head Alexei Tsydenov, have to think about this first of all.

Not a place for discussion

The report on the state of the Great Lake project was made with an emphasis on the proposals of the Government of the Irkutsk Region, which threw 139 billion rubles in the federal authorities, while insisted on the integrated nature of the project. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation threw out of these proposals everything that does not concern the environmental problems of the lake, resulted in the unique lake program - while the amount of expenses for the elimination of damage remained about the same as the regions gathered. But there are no prospects for the development of the economy around Lake Baikal.

The chairman of the Baikal Strategies club Roman Ishchenko began his performance with a historical reference, covering the period from the XVII to the XXI century. During this period, Ishchenko examined three waves of development of the Baikal territory: complete lawlessness within the framework of the resource approach from the moment of Russia's arrival in Baikal to the collapse of the USSR; Then the “prohibitive” period, with a full ban on all economic activity. Now the pendulum seemed to swing back. And, if you do not evict people from Lake Baikal, then we must return to economic development and find a certain way “according to the rope” without falling into complete environmental extremism, or into the total development of everything and everything.

As a model of the right approach to the use of such unique water bodies, Roman Ishchenko led the joint actions of the United States and Canada on the banks of the great lakes. According to the speaker, the Green Economy has been built in this region and the whole business lives according to the rules that are oriented towards making a profit for at least a decade. There was a feeling that Roman Ishchenko was terribly proud of the work made by the analytical center of the Baikal Strategies, but he could not voice any rational solutions except “create a project office” on the Baikal and analyze modern law.

I.O. The Minister of Natural Resources of Buryatia, Yuri Safyanov, said that the republic accumulated offers and events for 370 billion rubles, divided into four priorities, among which the federal department left only two - all about business and economy in the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation simply crossed out. “We believe that the project needs to be finalized and taken into account our proposals for the socio-economic development of the regions, subject to environmental legislation,” Safyanov said.

"And do not debate"

Then the meeting participants would talk about what he heard, put forward their ideas and suggestions, but Andrei Chernyshev thanked the speakers and moved to the question of the state of the current legislation. It was impossible to get rid of the thought that everything happens only for the box: everything that was said in the reports, the participants of the meeting, which were not very much interested in the topic, had long known from the media and violent discussions on social networks. Nothing fundamentally new sounded. The performance of the Minister of Natural Resources of the Irkutsk Region Andrei Kryuchkov, deputy Chernyshev cut it off in the most ruthless manner in order to utter a full stamp of a monologue about the “growth of the algae”, “shallow of Baikal” and “hypothetical, but real danger of building hydroelectric power plants in Mongolia”.

The mayor of the Olkhonsky district, Andrei Tykheev, sovered for seven minutes instead of five and began to complain about the actions of Rosreestr, which does not give local residents the opportunity to arrange lands into property. Because of this, the mayor said, the import substitution program suffers, and the Taeransky steppe is overgrown with forest. Soon, peasant farms will have nowhere to graze cattle. The mayor also found claims to the Baikal National Park, which forbids to local residents. “And they themselves rent an ATVs on Olkhon, help to destroy the already thin soil layer,” the mayor navigated.

The mayor of Baikalsk Vasily Temgenevsky once again complained to federal legislation, which prohibits him to take out the garbage and build the boiler room on coal. The head of the Monogorod himself, known throughout the world to his Central Bank, does not see any alternatives to coal. All other options for replacing the plant CHP, which, after stopping production at the Central Bank, turned out to be too powerful for the city, according to Temgenevsky, they are impossible either for technical reasons or for environmental. “This all should be decided under the auspices of the state. Business will never deal with business problems, ”Temgenevsky emphasized.

The representative of the ONF regional branch Marina Grigoryeva said that federal laws on the protection of Lake Baikal (primarily the 94-FZ law) are not tough, but rather absurd. And in general they contradict each other. According to Grigoryeva, media make even more confusion, writing, for example, about the ban on building treatment facilities - in fact, this can be done, but provided that the technology of these treatment plants will clean the wastewater to a state of distilled water. Whether such technologies exist and whether the journalists who slightly generalize the situation for the brevity of the presentation were to blame, Mrs. Grigorieva did not speak. “If it is important for someone, make a downs to yourself: you need to deal with it a lot,” said Grigoryeva, realizing that none of those present would deal with anything. - Take garbage from a large Golousy - 180 km, from Olkhon through a ferry - 80 km, and so on. No one will do this! Either big state money, or to change law. ”

In particular, Grigoriev said at the end of her speech, you need to deal with the boundaries of the world's natural heritage object-this border has not been held in any law, nor anywhere on the ground. Another representative of the ONF Ekaterina Virvo demanded from the deputies to adopt laws that would prohibit foreign tourists on the lake, foreign business - conduct their activities. First of all, I am sure Verevskaya, it is necessary to prohibit foreigners with and pour Baikal water. The more or less constructive proposal in the Direvskaya speech was only a statement on the creation of some mega-unit of several Irkutsk research institutes. The goal and source of financing remained with brackets, but on the Presidium, a convulsion has already passed. And the Vyserevskaya continued: to determine the key tourist points, hold a competition for treatment facilities of domestic production, prohibit the use of phosphate detergents and disposable plastic dishes, launch fishing plants, build housing only in the Russian and Buryat style ...

The list continued and continued, and his voice sounded so terribly that Andrei Chernyshev timidly asked to finish. “We calculated that two helicopters of the BSS would have enough for us to serve our BPT,” Verevskaya said, not at all concerned about whether her listeners would understand.

The result of the event was summed up by Nikolai Nikolaev. He recalled that on June 22, President Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions for the governments of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, setting a deadline until March 2018. Nikolaev asked all those present to change the tonality of the discussion: no one needs to convince anyone of the need to protect the interests of nature and citizens - the time has come to “work with the text” and write laws. No one will rule the borders of the Baikal natural territory, Russia will not abandon its obligations to protect the UNESCO World Heritage Object and will discuss this topic with international environmental organizations. “Let's collect specific proposals until the end of August and publicly discuss them with the participation of public organizations by the end of November,” Nikolaev suggested.

Everything looked as if a strict teacher approached a group of arguing schoolchildren and explained how everything would actually happen.

Konstantin Zverev, Irkutsk