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Why are taiga rivers burning with dams, how they demolish them, and also: how environmentalists saved the gold miners, but did not save
On October 19, at about six in the morning on the Seiba River near the village of Shchetinkino, the Kuraginsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a damage to the technological reservoir of the gold mining artel occurred. The stream flooded the dormitory-beam (something between the shed and the trailer, not fixed on the ground and not protected from external influence) where the workers were sleeping. There were presumably 74 people. 15 of them were killed, 13 were missing, three in serious condition were taken to a district worker, 11 with light injuries initially help in Shchetinkino, but they are preparing to be sent to the Kuraginsky hospital, all of them are subject to hospitalization (intermediate numbers - at the time when I transfer the note to the editor).
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The prime minister of the region Yuri Lapshin said that the bursting dam at the gold mine in the Kuraginsky district was built illegally and "in violation of all conceivable and unthinkable norms." There is a regulation on the creation of engineering structures, but no one saw a dam of the dam and did not control the construction, “the supervisory authorities did not even have representations that there was a dam in this place; Work on its construction is done with a artisanal way. ”
Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies Oleg Matylenko: “The balcony and stood below the level of the dam in violation of all safety rules. When the embankment began to collapse due to rains, the water went towards the village of gold miners. Everything that could happen has already happened. ”
Dam, which did not take place in the register of Rostekhnadzor and never checked, actually a significant construction and not at all invisible. It was clearly visible to everyone around, it was visible in the space cosmic, but none of the supervisory authorities was interested in it. And there are not one such dams here - there were still four recently. And their breakthroughs (less, of course, large -scale) occurred periodically. All structures are earthen, with a height of 5 to 10 meters. So it is surprising not what has happened now, but what has become about this, everyone knows. And now there is also a version that the cause of the breakthrough of the dam, Shchetinkino, could be the destruction of another dam, which is located upstream. This, in particular, is discussed in the Krasnoyarsk train.
About what about can happen in the Kuragin Taiga on gold mines, local residents and representatives of public environmental control warned the authorities repeatedly.
The breakthrough of the dam was programmed human greed and, apparently, corruption.
The “new” wrote about gold mining in this area and protests of indigenous people against barbaric fishing, about their appeals to everyone, up to the President of Russia. Here is what the “new” participants in public environmental control told now, adding that story by specific details.
Center for satellite monitoring and civil control (St. Petersburg, director Olga Chupachenko) a year ago gave conclusion No. 60/24: during the analysis of the spaceships received by means of remote sounding of the Earth, the CSMIGK revealed (see document) on the territory of the Kuraginsky and Balakhinsky districts of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the facts of pollution of water bodies suspended substances on September 20, 2018. “There are contamination of the Sisim River below the places of gold mining. Pollution intensifies after the confluence of the Seiba River in Sisim. The length of the pollution is 240 km. " Scanned images of a pollution site were attached.
The next day, September 21, 2018, Krasnoyarsk Alexander Kolotov, the Russian coordinator of the Ecological Coalition “River without Borders”, appealed (Exodus No. RWB-210918-2) to the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Management in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Andrei Kalinin. He conveyed the pictures and explained: “We believe that pollution occurred during the production of placer gold (including, possibly, as a result of accidents of hydraulic and other structures at water bodies) and indicates a significant damage caused by the environment. Probable sources of pollution: according to the interactive electronic subsoil use map of the Russian Federation, the Sisim River and its tributaries have deposits of scattering gold in use by Sisim LLC.
(I note that the broken dam belonged to Sisimu, this year it made a co-founder with a 20 percent share of Sibzoloto holding, which immediately came to one of the advanced positions in Siberia-two tons of gold per year in the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia. )
Further, Kolotov transfers Kalinin what articles are violated by the gold miners “as a result of actions or inaction”, asks to conduct an audit and take measures to suppress violations.
In response - nothing, zero. At the same time, Kalinin is Balakhtinsky, from there.
So the social activists saved, but did not save the gold miners.
On December 11, 2018, the head of the Office of the Federal Service for Supervision in the field of nature management Kalinin delayed the FSB upon receipt of a large bribe. At first they kept in jail, now under house arrest. In this position, he worked for only a few months, but the accusations and episodes are all accumulated and continue to be presented. But, as far as the "new" is known, they are not related to the Kuraginsky mines.
Meanwhile, there were six such appeals in Sisim and Seib to the Krasnoyarsk Rosprirodnadzor, as Kolotov recalls with the “new”. Moreover, they began to work after complaints from local residents went:
Not a river - one thing is coming. Previously, water was taken from the river, they drank even uncomfortable. Now it’s scary to boil.
Independent cosmic monitoring of pollution of the rivers of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, public men have been leading the miners of the placrimonial gold for five years. But this year the monitoring has been discontinued, since the last two years the Krasnoyarsk Rosprirodnadzor actually saboted their work, refusing to check the facts of pollution recorded in satellite images.
Alexander Kolotov
The coordinator of the ecological coalition "Rivers without borders"
- We were answered by our signals: go, take the pollution samples, to it for 500 meters, below it for 500 meters, hand over to the laboratory, analyze, and then come. That is, we were closed. And we were forced to retreat and focus on other regions. For example, in the Amur Region and the Trans -Baikal Territory they react to our appeals - up to the suspension of the activities of prospectors and the recall of the license.
Compared to these regions, gold miners in the Krasnoyarsk Territory are now, on the contrary, in the most comfortable conditions. It is no wonder that they are actively trying to expand the area of their activities and destroy any rivers where there are even grains of golden sand. It is not not for the fact that unaccounted dams are opened: if you refuse to accept space, refuse to go to check ...
And note: for two or three years they traveled, reacted to our appeals, and then-as cut off. Well, what is it? Surely something is unclean, you will think, one of the gold miners found approaches. And then. After all, everyone in the region watched how in recent months in the south local residents became activated in the fight against gold mining. "New" wrote about this, on the network - video features to Putin.
I am not even to the fact that someone could turn this dam, but why didn’t the authorities react and put things in order with the artels, as the locals demanded?
Well, yes, the locals turned to all authorities, starting from the district level: they presented both photo and video evidence, how prospectors work, but nothing. At the same time, the background, the events in the neighboring regions are as follows: the Kemerovo governor Tsivilev turned to Rosnedra with a proposal to completely ban the extraction in the field of placed gold (environmental harm from artels cannot be justified by economic benefit, even under technological requirements, it causes irreparable damage to the rivers; this is barbarism), Altai ecologists achieved the termination of the extraction of the toll gold on the ANUI River. It was a long -term epic of struggle.
Dams in Seib and Sisim, according to the stories of the locals, began to appear "two or three years old." Krasnoyarsk Rosprirodnadzor, according to Kolotov, has been sabotage for the last two years.
Krasnoyarsk Territory
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Rosprirodnadzor will check the level of pollution of the Seiba River after the breakthrough of the dam. This was reported to us in all the media. And Kolotov managed to recently visit Svetlana Radonova, the new head of Rosprirodnadzor (when she flew to Krasnoyarsk). It was agreed that now the cosmicons, fixing the lawlessness of prospectors and industrialists in the taiga, would be sent directly to the central apparatus, through the head of the Krasnoyarsk administration. It remains only unclear, why is it needed at all?