Let me breathe!

In Krasnoyarsk, another rally was held against Smog. The city is exhausted by him, but is not ready to go out in a protest

On the night of Saturday, Krasnoyarsk habitually dragged on Solo. On the Gray Half of December 9, the townspeople came to the next environmental rally - for the right to clean air. Some in respirators and petals, although on the eve of the organizers especially warned about the prohibition of covering persons (requirement of the law), prohibition of political slogans and agitation.

This can be considered a continuation of the “spring offensive” - in March, despite the information blockade, up to two thousand gathered, adopted a list of requirements for power. And we can also consider the “drain” of protest - now no more than four hundred people have come. Public activists are "bred." Simultaneously with the organizers of the rally “For Clean Sky”, an application for holding on December 9, the rally-meeting of Alexei Navalny with the Krasnoyarsk was also submitted by the local headquarters of the politician. They refused both, but the ecologists nevertheless offered the square on the outskirts, and the headquarters of Navalny, and already for nothing, except the outskirts, not claiming, refused there for one hundred and the first time. Do not get used to what, but now those who have nothing to divide are gnawing. In addition to understandable manipulations of the city hall and the local press, exactly in another city lives - again managing almost nothing to say about the rally, as well as in the spring.

Now they have returned to that resolution: what has been done in 9 months? The government reacts to the wishes of the workers in its characteristic manner: it created the Ministry of Ecology and rational nature management, transplanting officials - they used to sit in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology. A thin job, an amazing change in accents. Since the former prosecutor became new to the former minister from office (there is a criminal case). He even came to the rally - he did not speak, listened.

But so far it is not much cleans the actual air over the city. To do this, you need to advance on the interests of large business (in Krasnoyarsk there are two main pollutants - assets of Oleg Deripaska and Andrei Melnichenko).

Officials, as a wound, ride cotton wool. At the next recent meeting, a decisive measure is voiced: “It is necessary to control the emissions of plants, thermal power plants, boiler houses and transport.” In addition, a long -standing trend develops: in the Black Heaven above the Krasnoyarsk, not KrAZ (the largest aluminum factory in the world) and not a boom in coal, but stove heating of the private sector and vehicles in the world. The minister proposed limiting the entry into the city of the city of personal transport of a low environmental class. (According to police, of 366 thousand cars registered in Krasnoyarsk, new, up to one year, 4%, and over 15 years old - 32%.)

In addition to the appearance of the minister, the current rally was marked by the appearance of an impressive number of police officers. Thorough inspection at the entrance. Many did not go for the fence, remaining outside the controlled perimeter.

In all surveys, ecology is a problem No. 1 for Krasnoyarsk residents or among the first. But at the rally - 400 people. On a millionth city. This is complete disbelief in any social activity.

Activists from the people, following the environmental departments of the largest corporations, were concentrated on the theory of small affairs. They collect used batteries, candy wrappers, plant trees and release balls for ecology into the sky. A large business loves to finance this - in the region, beating all the records for promotions to the atmosphere. However, small things are now fraught. Social activists who have taken up the development of an alternative network of environmental monitoring are called to the prosecutor’s office, their projects are ruined, refusing to provide official data on pollution levels, etc.

“I hope that together with you we will be able to distinguish people who are ill for the work from those who simply make cheap PR on this,” says acting governor Alexander the USS. The day before, he met with Melnichenko (the people are called the yachtsman, just before the rally, the photo shoot in Tel Aviv on November 29-30 of his yachts Sailing Yacht a) widely dispersed. The city once again promised a new pipe of 270 meters to increase the area of ​​dispersion of emissions at one of the thermal power plants-the largest and oldest in Siberia, commissioned in 1943. The pipe is the people. As well as the installation of one electrifilter on one of the boilers. Andrei Fedorov, CEO of Suek-Krasnoyarsk (Actic Melnichenko), SCS presented the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation.

As for Deripaska, he almost does not appear in Krasnoyarsk. His PR people tell us that he is a visionary, forms a agenda in the world, promoting the topics of “green” aluminum and carbon tax, and his enterprises live according to the principles of Kaizen - the philosophy of continuous improvement and lean production, exported by deripaska from Japan. Now he certainly is not up to the city that his plants poison. A couple of days before the rally at his other enterprise, Gaza, the president was accepted, and after his statement that he would go to the polls, the Kuban Cossack choir entered the stage, which is again sponsored by Deripaska.

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