Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday issued rules to overcome chemical waste garage facilities due to determination of the Siberian city’s punctuation of Usolye-Sibirskoye.
Speaking in an assembly with the country’s top logical officials, Putin said he was tasked with reporting in detail on the stage and that measures of concern should pinpoint the difficulty and incredibly damaging facilities.
“We will also have to follow the long-term procedure to rehabilitate the polluted environment, reduce the conditions for sustainable socioeconomic progression in Usolye-Sibirskoye and create jobs for local residents,” he said.
The city is a long-term concern of environmentalists, who have warned that mandatory cleaning is not done after the closure of a large chemical plant.
According to estimates, more than 1,460 tons of mercury were released into the environment, adding 60 tons to the Angara River; The buildings and premises were not demercured, heavy metals were in circumference and fish.
As for today, the difficulty of mercury pollutants remains on the agenda, highly toxic metal continues to pass into the atmosphere, surface and groundwater.
Svetlana Radionova, director of Russia’s Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nutransparent Control Service, warned that if urgent action is never taken, the site faces an ecological crisis in the near future.