The forest will be cut down on Lake for power lines

There will be no continuous forest logging on Lake Baikal to expand the Trans -Siberian Railway, Russian Railways said. They are allegedly organized only for the construction of power lines.

The East Siberian Railway (END) told representatives of the environmental prosecutor's office that there would be no continuous deforestation in Lake Baikal to expand the Trans-Siberian Railway. The bosses of the EVAR claims that cutting is organized for the construction of power transmission lines, reports the Baikal Interregional Environmental Prosecutor's Office on Instagram on August 13.

“According to the deputy chief engineer of the East Siberian Railway (in the North Baikal region), Alexander Ivanov, to the present moment the need for continuous logging in the central ecological zone of Lake Baikal is absent,” the department said.

The North -Baikal inter -district environmental prosecutor Alexei Barsukov still plans to hold a meeting with representatives of the electric grid economy for cutting down. The department raised the question of special control.

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Recall that the law signed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin allows the law to transfer the lands of the forest fund of the Baikal zone into the lands of other categories until 2025, after which “continuous cutting” is allowed. The list of objects under which you can chop the forest will determine the Government of the Russian Federation, in which they assure that they should be related to the needs of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur line.

The bill was approved by both the State Duma and the Council of People's Commissars. Putin signed it on July 31. The Irkutsk State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Mikhail Shchapov asked the speaker of the SF Valentin Matvienko to reject the law.According to Shchapov , in the Irkutsk region, the amendments adopted in two days without a wide discussion caused a resonance: hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the Baikal, in social networks, expressed a negative position in relation to this decision.

The Irkutsk senator Vyacheslav Markhaev also opposed the adoption of the law at the plenary meeting of the Council. Buryat Senator Alexander Bartholomeev, abstained from voting by law, proposed to “monitor” deforestation near Baikal. The petition , which requires stopping the deforestation in Lake Baikal, collected more than 147 thousand signatures by August 13. A flash mob with the slogans #SAVEBAIKAL and #SPEARMBAIKAL is also held on the Internet.

The Scientific Council for the Forest of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was opposed to the law allowing continuous cutting in Lake Baikal under the pretext of expanding the Trans -Siberian Railway. The law signed by Putin contradicts the amendments to the Constitution made from his own submission, ecologists said .