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Angarah can become the second Chernobyl - Rosprirodnadzor
Svetlana Radovonova, the head of Rosprirodnadzor, gave an interview to Izvestia, which stated that the territory of the former Usolekhimprom plant in the city of Usol-Sibirskoye in the Irkutsk region is an ecological disaster.
“In fact, this is the territory of an environmental disaster. We must act now, otherwise we will get such an“ ecological Chernobyl, ”said Razonova.
She noted that in the enterprise there are a large number of mercury -containing residues, and production itself is infected with mercury.
Rosprirodnadzor insists on the reclamation of the territory of the plant. The department also, according to Radonova, appealed to the Russian government with a request to create a state program for the reclamation of the facility. She also noted that the Ministry of Natural Resources is discussed by the bill, which will secure the obligation to reclamation by the owners.
- Since November, in Usolye-Sibirsky, an emergency mode has been operating due to at least 22 tanks with a tenthloric silicon, thousands of tons of petroleum products and the housings polluted by metal mercury located on the industrial site of the enterprise.
- The liquidation of the eco-out-of-service inflicted in the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye in the Angara region of the bankrupt enterprise "Usolekhimprom" will require about two billion rubles.