To the bottom!

What fate of Baikal does the Ministry of Natural Resources prepare, and is it time to rename this department into Mintskvetmet or Minzhilkomkhoz

The government continues to regulate Baikal, and there are two news. Bad: the Ministry of Natural Resources (MPR) introduced a project to the Cabinet of Ministers "On the maximum and minimum values ​​of the water level in Lake Baikal."

The Baikal documents are also called the Irkutsk reservoir. And this is not an insult, but a statement: Baikal is controlled by EN+, the level of Lake Baikal is regulated not by the natural elements, but by its Irkutsk hydroelectric power station. Of course, through a basin control official. And from a bureaucratic point of view, this is a large reservoir, the upper BEIF, suitable for use for industrial purposes.

The Angarsk cascade of the hydroelectric power station provides the current of metallurgists; In this case, aluminum is the materialization of the “sacred sea”, the materialized energy of its waters. If you measure the lake in aluminum flaps, then each millimeter of its thickness is loudly monetized. In 2001, the Cabinet of Ministers limited the greed of the business, indicating the permissible range of fluctuations in the lake level in one meter. The deprived for the first time achieved a temporary expansion of the amplitude in 2015, then twice more, and now the head of the MPR, Alexander Kozlov, offers the Cabinet of Ministers to fix the range of 2.3 meters forever.

There are no scientific justification for these numbers, they have only beneficiaries. In addition to business, this is a communal economy in the lower Bueh of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station and the entire coastal Angara Samostroy. It is now saved legally - when there is a lot of water. And when small-they save from the exposure of the TPP-10 water intake in the hangar. Merging Baikal or slowing down, locking it; The interests of a separate lake world and its inhabitants are the sixteenth.

The coalition of the River without Borders in the fall wrote to Vice Prime Minister Abramchenko that the draft resolution has a distinctly corruption character: “By the end of September, the level of the lake exceeded the maximum level established by the 2001 resolution (457 m), which, according to the rules of operation of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, was supposed to lead to a reset of 4000 m3/s. However, the federal authorities ordered that the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station “for the safety of residents” would not dump more than 2800 m3/s (as a coincidence, this is the maximum amount of water, the necessary hydroelectric power station for the production of electricity; Baikal is now used as an anti -flower reservoir to eliminate the shortcomings of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station caused by illegally built buildings in the Angara floodplain, and ensure that water is not wasted without electricity production. ”

At the same time, this is what happened in Buryatia, on the canopy of the east coast. Excerpts from the dispatch that left to Moscow then: on October 2, for the first time since 2007, the maximum level of 457.12 m was recorded in Baikal, and this leads to the intensive destruction of the coastline, the flooding of agricultural land, groundwater in settlements occurs; In the coastal areas, the “increased readiness” mode has been introduced; In the case of the proposed regulatory consolidation of new levels, “the consequences for the ecosystem and infrastructure will be catastrophic, and the losses of the landscape, ecosystem functions and biodiversity are irreparable”.

The already forever wide range of fluctuations scored during a public discussion on the government portal 1147 votes against and 4 for (apparently, the minister with assistants).

More than 200 comments from hundreds of respondents have been made to the project. Everyone is rejected.

In a third of the answers, the facts are wrapped; In a consolidated report on the portal, there is an obvious non -true: “The execution of the act is not fraught with financial expenses (tell this especially in Buryatia, where it drowns in much water, and burns in low water); “The negative effects that arise in connection with the presence of the problem: there are no” (even if you renounce the degradation of the ecosystem, is it so insignificant to deepen the contradictions between Irkutsk and Buryatia?); “Other information about the proposed method of solving the problem: no” (about the reconstruction and deepening of hangar water intakes, restoring order with the development of coasts - no, did not hear). And the explanatory note says that the adoption of the decision does not contradict the provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation (tell this at the next session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee).

The good (but, obviously not for everyone) is the news that the government official is alien to xenophobia, he is a Western, lamentations and screeching of propaganda under his leadership from himself, everyone is quite according to Pushkin: “The government is still the only European in Russia.” Previously, the regulation of Lake Baikal was put into the framework of helping socially close business, Deripaska and Yeltsin family. With changes in the Council of Directors of EN+ (where the Anglo -Saxons now, appointed by the US Ministry of Finance, the British Lord, the former American Marine and the retired State Department, etc.), not changing in the person,

The Russian official continues the former line. Fearless: neither the screams of the "National Defenseists", nor the 275 article of the Criminal Code, nor the legislation on foreign agents did not shake its determination.

To preserve the Baikal ecosystem, it is important to strive for the natural course of oscillations. In the meantime, the amplitudes and the timing of the rise and decline of the water are displaced, and the task of following the natural cycles is not formulated. This is a war of the state and large business with the natural course of life itself. The fight of two worldviews. For one Baikal, if not God's revelation, it is certainly self -appropriate. For another, he is a reservoir of hobby.

What can I do?

Do not finish Baikal! The expansion of economic activity will destroy the ecosystem of the lake.