A year ago, an environmental disaster of unprecedented scales occurred in Kamchatka: a huge number of animals died, local surfers were poisoned. The reason was never found out: the investigation was not completed, and Ran wrote what happened to the “red tides” – a natural phenomenon associated with the ocean pollution. However, this does not mean that people have nothing to do with it.
Red tides can be restrained, and in Japan they have long come up with a way. But Kamchatka went in her way. Officials who are entrusted to protect nature consider it to be business resource, and local companies lowering waste into the water, getting off with fines. At the same time, the most poor people own business in Kamchatka: the companies of Viktor Vekselberg are mined here, a billionaire and senator Valery Ponomarev is engaged in fishing.
Water poisons not only business. GUP “Kamchatka Vodokanal” regularly receives fines for natural pollution and does not cope with the repair of outdated treatment facilitiesBalancing on the verge of bankruptcy. And at the bottom of the Avachin Bay Lying tons of flooded shipsthat no one was going to raise before the disaster.
Among the culprits of the catastrophe, they also called the Kozelsky training ground, where tons of arsenic were buried. The Dossier Center found that The Kamchatka authorities knew about his danger before the incident – but Moscow refused to allocate money to study the burial ground and reclamation of other dangerous landfills. In addition, it turned out that The former governor, being at the post, could lobby the interests of the local gold mining company: He pressed on Rosprirodnadzor during inspections. A The ex-head of the Forestry Agency turned out to be a platinum philanthropist “Club of Mountain Hunters” associated with the FSB and the owner of most hunting grounds of the region.
While officials came up with new ways of earning on the local nature, the ecosystem of the peninsula has degraded. Every year, more and more toxic substances were found in the water, but before last year’s disaster in Kamchatka there was no integrated system of observation of ecology. There is always not enough money to protect nature, but they are on the local “troll factory“And the praise of the regional authorities.
The Dossier Center went to Kamchatka and found out why the region was not able to prevent an ecological disaster.
Indifference and mess: how they poison the nature of Kamchatka – the center “Dossier”
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